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"New Jersey&amp;apos;s answer to Coachella, All Points West, is mere days away. Before you hit the ferry, check out our picks for five of the fest&amp;apos;s sure-fire breakout acts. Get all our recommended sets here.\n\nCage the Elephant\nStage: Blue Comet\nSet Time: Saturday, 2:15-3:05 p.m.\nThis Kentucky-based quartet scored a solid hit this year with the blues-rock blast &amp;quot;Ain&amp;apos;t No Rest for the Wicked,&amp;quot; a sharply written travelogue about a loner who goes searching for redemption but instead ends up chatting with hookers and getting mugged at gunpoint. Loose, rowdy and with virtuousic guitar licks that could be mistaken for Jack White, Cage the Elephant&amp;apos;s tunes are exactly what you&amp;apos;d want to hear on a soused summer afternoon.\n \nThe Postelles\nStage: Queen of the Valley\nSet Time: Saturday, 4:30-5:10 p.m.\nLast year, this New York quartet teamed up with the Strokes&amp;apos; Albert Hammond Jr. for their debut single &amp;quot;123 Stop.&amp;quot; And guess what? It totally sounds like the Strokes &amp;#x2014; crunchy guitar riffs, massive power pop beat, slacker vocals that sound funneled through a tin can &amp;#x2014; and that&amp;apos;s definitely a good thing. Expect to hear a bunch of new cuts from their long-in-the-making major-label debut. Caveat: The Postelles aren&amp;apos;t exactly road warriors; this is one of the biggest shows they&amp;apos;ve played yet. \n \nAkron/Family\nStage: Bullet\nSet Time: Sunday, 4:30-5:20 p.m.\nThis Williamsport, Pennsylvania crew started out as an experimental folk rock outfit, but with their latest album Set &amp;apos;Em Wild, Set &amp;apos;Em Free, Akron/Family emerge from the woods to deliver a set of amped-up, downright danceable grooves, particularly on the stunning sing-a-long &amp;quot;Everyone Is Guilty,&amp;quot; which mixes tribal beats with fierce Jimmy Page-style guitar riffage. They haven&amp;apos;t totally ditched their ponderous, folky side: tracks like the mellifluous &amp;quot;Set &amp;apos;Em Free, Pt. 1&amp;quot; will sound great in underneath the hot afternoon sun.\n \nLa Roux\nStage: Queen of the Valley\nSet Time: Sunday, 6:20-7:10 p.m.\nLa Roux are a British synth-pop duo who have broken out as one of the buzziest acts in their homeland this year. Fronted by androgynous redhead Elly Jackson, La Roux turn out stylish, ass-shaking new wave on killer cuts like &amp;quot;Bulletproof&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;In for the Kill,&amp;quot; which would sound perfect on the soundtrack for the next James Bond flick.\n\nSeasick Steve\nStage: Blue Comet\nSet Time: Friday, 2:20 p.m.\nSeasick Steve broke out earlier this year thanks to a spot on Britain&amp;apos;s influential Jools Holland Show. But he isn&amp;apos;t another flash-in-the-pain indie-rock artist &amp;#x2014; he&amp;apos;s a grizzled, seventy-something journeyman who delivers stark autobiographical narratives while cranking out fuzzed-out slide-guitar blues. (Fans of Morphine and Presidents of the United States will dig his minimal style of playing on a three-string junk-shop guitar.) APW&amp;apos;s dark horse act for sure."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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