It's rare that a band today can make an album that gets better with each and every repeat, but The xx have done just that. They've gone from a group of brand-new English kids to one of the biggest bands in the independent music world in just under a year, but The xx deserve every mote of the attention that's been thrown their way.

Despite being a brand-new band, Rogue Valley have some elements of familiarity to The Current listeners. From their orchestral-folk sound to their leader, local hero Chris Koza, Rogue Valley are primed for a round of success in the Twin Cities.

Three albums into an astronomic career, Beach House is the critically renowned project of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, Baltimore natives who make ethereal dream-pop sound easy.

Somewhere between hardcore music and Bruce Springsteen lie Titus Andronicus, one of the latest bands in a rich vein of hard-rocking Jersey kids. They're only on their second album, "The Monitor," a concept album inspired by the Civil War, but they're riding a huge wave of buzz from the Internet.