Lena Dunham's HBO series, Girls, is a groundbreakingly honest depiction of Hipster, Brooklyn. And its soundtrack album is an equally on-point mix of hipster mood music – from the high-end dance-floor whoo!-whoo! of Robyn and Santigold (who contributes the hip-hop anthem "Girls"), to the strum-journal reflections of Fleet Foxes, to the lustcharged punk of Sleigh Bells and the Vaccines. There are elegant new tracks from fun. and Michael Penn. But the best moment might be pop-folk sister act Tegan and Sara's sweet, funny take on the Stones' "Fool to Cry," reimagining classic rock just as Dunham has hotwired the rules of New York storytelling.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."