Lars Gotrich

John Prine takes us around Nashville for his "Knockin' on Your Screen Door" video, featuring friends like Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires and Dan Auerbach.

Roy Montgomery's music is like swimming through phantoms. The New Zealand guitarist enlists Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr, Julianna Barwick and others to sing on Suffuse, out Aug. 17.

The Russian electronic musician's oddly meditative music is set to the domestic comforts of the mundane.

David Bazan brings the downcast indie-rock banger to its raging crisis. In the process, he resurrects the sonic sphere of Pedro the Lion.

Whether you're on the beach or hard at work counting down the hours to a neighborhood cookout, you need some new tunes.

The singer-songwriter and producer's retro-to-the-future sound never felt old, but lived in and lived through. One fan recalls hearing Richard Swift's debut 7-inch.

The long-running band's first single in four years mixes exuberant guitar-fuzz with a danceable ennui.

A great power-pop song has one foot in happy-go-lucky hooks and another stomping a triumphant riff. D.C.'s Saturday Night lives in that space.

The two pop stars have reconvened their mutual appreciation society for the latest single off Ariana Grande's upcoming album Sweetener.

The lead single from the three-guitar rock band's first album in four years, LP5000, wonders what remains of a neighborhood when its residents are pushed out.

Two forces of modern metal combine to reflect on the past while looking for the means to move forward.

Material Girls' glam-soaked, goth-smeared rock and roll struts and stumbles like a fish-netted pair of legs breaking in new heels.

Melody Prochet's wildly imaginative "Cross My Heart" is set to a surreal animation like something out of a Moebius comic strip, bubbling vegetation, cosmic deer and glowing ocarinas included.

For Fixed Ideals, out Aug. 31, the U.K. pop-punk trio sharpens its sound by slowing down (just a smidge) to make a bigger impact.

Cumulus is working on its second record right now, but today offers a hook-filled anthem about consent.

J. Spaceman made his new Spiritualized album, And Nothing Hurt, entirely in his east London home. But the first two singles, "A Perfect Miracle" and "I'm Your Man," sound every bit as grand.

Katie Bennett has quickly become one of indie pop's most thoughtful songwriters as Free Cake For Every Creature. Hear "Around You" from The Bluest Star, out Aug. 3.

Last summer, we didn't invent a genre; we just gave the lifestyle a name. This year, we're celebrating the whole spectrum of the roséwave lifestyle to soundtrack your summer of thinking pink.

The quippy first single from A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, out in October, is for anyone flailing out there in the "adulting" era of your 20s.

This is the kind of pop song made for crying on the dance floor, tears smeared into glittery eye shadow.