OK. We brought you Rodrigo Y Gabriela, you said too much guitar. Team Facelift? Not street enough. Nelly Furtado? Tired of the commercials. And y'all nearly crumbled when we compared Paramore's Hayley Williams to Avril. So, we realize we're never gonna make e'ryone happy. So, instead, hopefully SOME of you will be happy to know that varied and sundry indie band Minus The Bear is this week's MTV Artist Of The Week.

Minus The Bear manages, almost impossibly, to hover somewhere above the treacherous demilitarized zones of indie that divide prog from shoe-gazing from power-pop. Yet while other lesser bands might suffer from the resulting musical schizophrenia that comes from such experimentation, Minus The Bear successfully maintains one overarching truism: they're cunning lyricists capable of math rock minus the annoying advanced math. Read more...