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NEW YORK - BABIES MAKE THE BEST SUPERGROUPS

Supergroups always rock. Consistently they're an explosion of brilliant ego clashes, awesome cocaine addictions, and generally rad fret wankery. Example? Cream. I love Eric Clapton in any form, but their brand of cod blues-rock amazingly managed to make him even cooler. Emerson, Lake and Palmer are three helpings of genius, and recently we've been blessed with such luminaries as Temple of the Dog, Zwan, Audioslave, and Velvet Revolver – each one a megaton of fun. But then

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the Babies

came along and everything changed.

Cassie from

Vivian Girls

, Kevin from

Woods

and a couple of other Brooklynites are a supergroup who don't have an inch of stadium about them, clearly all still own their original septums, and haven't ever made a roadie take the rap for a groupie OD. How you can even be in a supergroup without selling at least ten million records between you is beyond me, but hey, everyone is very excited about them, so have a listen.

The Babies - "Meet Me In The City"

JOEL WRIGHT