Consider Daft Punk. Far from punk, they're retro house superstars. Queens of the Stone Age? Straight-as-nails desert rock. Enter Sexy/Heavy, Melbourne's come-hither rockers so named for doing what it says on their (sexy) tin. Sexy/Heavy singer Knave Knixx shakes it for old school and hard-driving rock.
Also: An interview with Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation