Proof that the mooks and the shoegazers have some common ground. Sure, “Minerva” might be tailor-made for bratty, overprogrammed Clear Channel stations, but that’s beside the point: Nü metal sounds infinitely smarter when it acknowledges that My Bloody Valentine pointed toward Guitarland’s manifest destiny. Joe Warminsky
Deftones
A few of the things we're listening to this week, in no particular order