Lars Gotrich

Tyler Childers writes songs about hard lives and hard love with direct heart and a soulful Kentucky drawl.

The psychedelic dance crew will release its first album in seven years, Kazuashita, on June 22.

Six years into Damaged City, the D.C. festival is starting to reflect its younger, more multicultural and gender-fluid crop of artists and attendees.

Cecil Taylor encompasses a never-ending range of sound and emotion. Hear an archival session with Marian McPartland from 1994.

With lyrics taken from Muhal Richard Abrams song titles and a video shot in the Bronzeville neighborhood, the Chicago-born musician connects the dots of his city's jazz history.

Deer mixes traditional Inuit throat singing and indie-rock in a style she cleverly calls "Inuindie." "I have one foot in both worlds and I think my music exemplifies that," the singer says.

This is Howlin Rain in full-on Crazy Horse mode, as big guitar chords are lashed with feedback. The band's music has never felt so anthemic.

The fruit borne from Cate Le Bon and White Fence's Tim Presley in the last few years have been strange and delightful hybrids, like little pluots of avant-pop and post-punk.

Daugherty strikes out on her own and falls down a rabbit hole with the lead single off her upcoming album, Light, out June 1.

The Madrid trio punches out raucous melodies like boxing gloves made from marshmallows. The Hoax comes out April 27.

Seth Graham, who co-runs the experimental music label Orange Milk, makes glitched classical music frayed at the ends of reality.

A busy, carnival-esque ostinato grounds the space-y Farfisa fuzz from this nine-piece Mexico City ensemble.

The only certain thing about this experimental Detroit collective is its chaotic entropy. The Armed's forthcoming Only Love seems to engineer deranged noise and chaotic hardcore as normal.

Everyone looks fly as hell in this "Rosa Tropical" video as the Chicano-soul band burns the edges of the evening with chrome embers.

The Asheville-based singer and fingerstyle guitarist offers an Appalachian slow burn to melt the snow away.

This world-weary melody announces the musician's upcoming album, Argonauta, with a psychic bruise that never quite heals.

Surrounded by an art installation featuring wires and woolen yarns, the Australian singer-songwriter's sharp wit stands out in a sweetly quiet song that rages loudly.

The ambient music innovator quickly follows up 2017's Narkopop with Rausch, out May 18.

Cornelius' Keigo Oyamada deconstructs and reassembles music like it's a neon cubist-pop sculpture. On a rare U.S. tour, the Japanese band brought its complex cool to the Tiny Desk.

The audience slept, dreamed and sometimes snored — it's okay, that's what it's for — through this trance-inducing experience.