Battle Of The Bands 2007 - Round 2 - Bracket B

#1 Queens Of The Stone Age 3 - #32 Sum 41 0 - A clean sweep for one of the tournament favorites, though Sum 41 has finally returned to the charts.

#2 Radiohead 3 - #34 My Morning Jacket 0 - My Morning Jacket is frequently referred to as "the American Radiohead". Clearly there's a reason why Radiohead isn't referred to as "the British My Morning Jacket".

#3 Sonic Youth 3 - #35 Wilco 0 - Wilco is tragically low-ranked, but they wouldn't have been able to beat a band on par with Sonic Youth later on in the tourney, so it doesn't really matter if it happens now or later.

#4 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 3 - #36 Kid Rock 0 - Tom Petty's been around for 25 years longer than Kid Rock, but of the two bands, Kid's the one that's yesterday's news.

#5 Modest Mouse 3 - #28 Slipknot 0 - Modest Mouse is one of the hottest bands in independent rock at the moment. Slipknot... isn't.

#6 System Of A Down 3 - #38 Thursday 0 - First tier political punk takes down second tier political punk.

#26 The Arcade Fire 2 - #7 Elvis Costello 1 - Elvis is the victim of the inexplicable low seeding of The Arcade Fire.

#8 A Perfect Circle 3 - #25 Stone Sour 0 - Stone Sour may be the bigger band at the moment, but this isn't just a measure of this month or this moment right now.

#41 The Eels 2 - #9 Paul McCartney 1 - One of the best indie rock bands that no one has ever heard of takes down the strangely high ranked Paul McCartney.

#10 The Thermals 2 - #23 Chevelle 1 - One of the best political punk bands of the moment takes down a popular, but mediocre metal band.

#11 Social Distortion 2 - #22 The Drive-By Truckers 1 - Social Distortion re-entered the charts just in time to get the winning vote in this match.

#12 Muse 3 - #21 Aimee Mann 0 - Muse is ranked far too low for this competition, but they can still hold their own against Mann, who is an acquired taste to be sure.

#20 The Music 2 - #13 Mark Lanegan 1 - Lanegan has been a legend when he's got a band behind him, but he's not nearly as popular on his own.

#14 Spoon 2 - #19 Kings Of Leon 1 - I strongly disagree, but I can't say that the decision was surprising on this one.

#15 Bruce Springsteen 2 - #18 Jet 1 - The Dylan of his generation is riding a surge of good music in recent years and his sincerity is the perfect weapon against a band like Jet, who seems like a copy of a copy.

#16 The Old 97's 2 - #17 The Pink Spiders 1 - It's Thunderdome: Two great but obscure bands go in, one comes out.