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The Muslims

San Diego quartet the Muslims coolly combine an obvious love of the Kinks and other Sixties Brit-beat staples with a Strokes-like tautness, generating an exhilaratingly fresh garage-rock hybrid that seems to fizz out of the speakers. It's not hard to see why so many labels are falling over themselves to sign these guys right now (and why their CMJ gigs were all filled to capacity): The chugging "Parasites" is an insanely infectious four-minute thrash, and the way they apply their breakneck signature sound to Spacemen 3's shoe-gaze anthem "Walking With Jesus" is fearless. And before John McCain voters start writing concerned letters about national security, no, they're not actually Muslims. HARDEEP PHULL

Listen Here: "Parasites"