The Prodigy

Before blowing up with tracks like “Firestarter” and “Smack My Bitch Up,” The Prodigy was an elemental act in the early days of rave, when whirring sirens and giddy catcalls (literally, from cats, at least cartoon ones) reigned. The Prodigy’s “blowup” didn’t last especially long, dwindling with the fortunes of the mistakenly forecast electronica boom, but few groups have a history so deep. Prodigy mastermind Liam Howlett went without stagy frontman Keith Flint on 2004’s Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, but Flint has been back as of late, including on the typically rangey, charged 2009 album Invaders Must Die.