Red Jumpsuit Apparatus w/ Fit For Rivals and Little Saint Anything

If it were possible to mash everything on alternative radio into a doughy paste, then cook the batter in an easy bake oven for a half hour, the resulting band would probably be indistinguishable from Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. This shape-shifting Florida group wraps Hoobastank’s faux-metal, All-American Rejects’ mall-pop and Fall Out Boy’s arena-emo into one earnest package, with room to spare for some acoustic, “Hey There Delilah”-styled balladeering. Their 2006 major-label debut, Don’t You Fake It, housed the hit “Face Down,” an impassioned account of domestic violence as visceral as anything on alt radio at the time. The band’s 2009 follow-up Lonely Road opted for a larger, grander sound.