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When we first featured futuristic pop/R&B singer-songwriter Doe Paoro on All Songs Considered, we called her voice "liquid" and the track "spacious." Word must have gotten around to Paoro, who is premiering the video for new single "Hypotheticals" today. Filmed in collaboration with Residencia Gorila in ...

It's impossible to talk about the new album from Seattle punk trio Childbirth without discussing Women's Rights. In the literal sense, it is the name of the band's sophomore release; and symbolically, every aspect of every song here is tied up in young women staking a claim and taking what's ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Al Spx (who uses a stage name out of respect for her parents' disapproval of her career in music) found her band's name, Cold Specks, in a James Joyce quote. "Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil lights shining in the darkness," is ...

Marrow almost didn't need to make a video for its latest single, "The Gold Standard." The quartet, which features three former members of Kids These Days, makes indie rock cinematic enough that adding images could border on sensory overload. But sensory overload is exactly the point of the Jake Saner-directed ...

As avant-garde pop act CocoRosie, sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady have dedicated their careers to probing and exhibiting life at the fringes of society. Their lyrics, both sung and spoken, are always enigmatic and occasionally, as in 2004's racially charged "Jesus Loves Me," deliberately shocking. Their work tangles ...

Gwenno Saunders is a broken woman in her latest video, "Patriarchaeth," but not in the ways you'd expect. The Pipettes singer and keyboardist, who performs electropop solo work under her first name, used digital and manual techniques to create the video with English artist Ian Watson. Gwenno told ...

Saying an artist's music is "gaining velocity" usually means it's exploding in popularity; finding a larger (and growing) audience. For the songs of Twin Cities musician Haley Bonar, though, it's literally true. Her musical projects, first solo and now with her band Gramma's Boyfriend, have been increasing in tempo and ...

Bakers know to cut their sweetest confections with salt, to give dimension to that sugary taste. Painters and photographers use shadow to give shape to light. And on her latest single, "Still Your Girl" (from her newest EP, Arrows), the Michigan-born, Nashville-bred singer-songwriter Fleurie (born Lauren Strahm) uses heavy, jarring ...

A warning: The latest video from Seattle singer-songwriter Noah Gundersen is a relentless attack on the tear ducts. If its visuals, directed gorgeously by Ryan Booth, don't make you cry, Gundersen's plaintive voice and aching lyrics might. This track, "Jealous Love," is self-explanatory in the best ways a folk song ...

The best part of being in a band, says singer/songwriter Jendayi Bonds, is watching a song come to life. The same can be said of watching her band, pop duo Charlie Belle, start on the steep ascent to stardom. Jendayi and her brother Gyasi trained as musicians starting ...

Work means a lot of things to a lot of people. It can be a hustle, it can be a drag, it can be what gets you out of bed in the morning, it can be what puts food on the table. In honor of our multi-faceted feelings about the ...

By all accounts, the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack was not supposed to be a hit. It featured some well-known artists (Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley), but presented them singing old-time American songs. All ...

Animation is the perfect medium to illustrate Damien Rice's new single, "Hypnosis." It's taken from the soundtrack to The Prophet, one of two songs Rice contributed, and the video's images are drawn entirely from the film. Animation's project is to convey a full range of feeling and experience ...

Rhode Island singer-songwriter Elisa Coia has a room-silencing voice, but she's not afraid of machined gloss. It's the combination of timeless vocal talent and a millennial's ease with technological flourishes that makes this R&B newcomer's latest single, "These Days," take flight.

It's a busy song. Thick, glossy production cycles in ...

In Iceland, belief in elves, gnomes and huldufólk (hidden people) is not unusual. Small homes and churches pepper the country's fields and hills, built by citizens looking to provide shelter should any sprites come searching. Development projects are protested on grounds of disrupting elfin populations. A huldufólk blessing ...

Fifties girl group crooning and echo chamber drums. Sixties wall of sound. Seventies California canyon sway. Eighties laser-sharp production. Nineties alt-country twang. Aughts vocal callbacks from Neko Case to Jenny Lewis to Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast. Such is the stylistic chronology of indie-pop ...

A name change can be a tiny bureaucratic adjustment, or it can be a personal revolution. For Detroit indie-pop band JR JR (formerly Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.), it was the latter. According to the band, their original name was "the most ridiculous name [they] could think of," which ...

Bumper stickers say "Keep Austin Weird," but Texas band Holiday Mountain has a different agenda for its hometown — at least according to its latest single, "Get Really Freaky." And if the song's new video is any indication, resistance is futile.

The futuristic, genre-bending group, who entered last year's

Last weekend, thousands of uncommonly refined punks flooded the Estonian town of Rakvere to participate in the third Punk Song Festival (previous gatherings were held in 2008 and 2011).

Estonia is known for its singing tradition and its world-class Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. So perhaps it makes perfect ...

Toronto singer Lowell makes bubblegum pop — if that bubblegum has been stuck irreverently under a desk, or spit defiantly onto the ground. Her music is sweet, but with an intentional, inseparable grit. Such is the case on her latest release, "Ride," a spiky, MIA-adjacent summer anthem featuring ...