Weezer returns with hooks in hand, Daft Punk is the new Black Sabbath, and the Soul Coughing singer wants to blow up Starbucks. Ahh...summer's in the air. Here are this week's tunes.

Amerie - "1 Thing (Remix featuring Eve)"

"My high heels are clicking towards the door," chirps the singer as she lustfully strolls off to meet her guy. But those clicks are only part of the mega rhythmic landscape at play. Here's a track that appreciates drums, whether they're smacked, thwacked, or cracked. Is 2005 the summer of percussion?

Daft Punk -- "Robot Rock"

Human After All has been unfairly derided by those who never got the news that these guys were the techno Black Sabbath, but this primitive stomper should fix that: it might be their "Paranoid."

I Wayne -- "Can't Satisfy Her"

Bubbling on the Jamaican underground for close to a year, this tune has suddenly broken out big in America. It's the rare Island sound that harkens back to Marley's emotionalism; it gets you in both the body and the brain. His "Cry Cry" style is catchy enough to have you singing the chorus without even realizing it.

Perceptionists - "Bio"

The alt-rap also-rans seem like the champs of the moment (take that Mike Jones; step off T.I.) as they explain their history and promise you that their stuff is the rare stuff. They happen to be right. Thick like the Bomb Squad's tracks for Public Enemy and witty like De La Soul's boast-a-licous wordplay, the Boston crew gets it right.

Weezer -- "Beverly Hills"

Rivers Cuomo and Co. eschew the L.A. clichés for a neo-industrial riff that sounds like it could flatten 90210 before turning into the world's dumbest metal sing-along.

Queens of the Stone Age - "Little Sister"

Heavy guitars always win. These guys have reinvented hard rock by plugging in a bit of sly intelligence the way hair bands plugged in a fuzz pedal. When those guitars break into new wave catchiness, you'll feel like you're 16 again.

Kate McGarry - "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets"

Contemporary jazz singers take their ideas from all over the place, and McGarry, one of the music's most valued newcomers, hits Broadway and milks Damn Yankees for this overt song of seduction. Tango, anyone?

Arcade Fire -- "Rebellion (Lies)"

This Montreal quintet has a bottom that drives in the manner of the best post punk, yet weirdly it blooms into something heart-wrenching and personal due to the warmth of a violin and lead singer Win Butler's angry, yet optimistic lyrics. A vitriolic ode to spring.

Mike Doughty - "Busting Up a Starbucks"

The Soul Coughing singer is now on Dave Matthews' label, and when he's not using his poetry-inspired lyrics to create a sound that some might deem a witty American's take on David Gray, he's condemning conformity with this banjo-laced trance rock broadside.

The Raveonettes -- "Ode to L.A."

The Danes have their Kohl-black eyes firmly on the ozone hole in this booming Wall of Sound pastiche, whose masterstroke is invoking guest star Ronnie Spector as the City of Angels' guardian deity.

Elvis Costello -- "The Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line"

His 1986 King of America has just been released with a bounty of extra tracks, and backed by a sharp little outfit called the Confederates, E.C. romps through Waylon Jennings' rough 'n' tumble tune with a blast of twang in his pocket.