Lars Gotrich

In an art installation full of faces, Becca Mancari can't face herself. This performance of the introspective centerpiece to her album Good Woman underlines the song's lonely atmospherics.

Natalie Prass turns the laid-back groove of "Short Court Style" into the soft murmurs of late-night devotion.

The Durham, N.C.-based band swirls the gothic croon of Samhain and 16 Horsepower's fiery proselytizing.

In an animated video, Shires' beautifully trembling ballad about emotional infidelity turns into a love story with a lake monster.

The dream-pop band started in Christchurch, New Zealand, but never got to make a record in its home country — until now. Not a since year since its debut, Yumi Zouma is already back with Willowbank.

The L.A. duo's glossy shoegaze and dark electro-pop has evolved.

Threshold Of Faith sounds like something ancient from an unknown past, something evolving between sheets of ice, desperately unquiet in its escape.

Listening to the Montreal trio is like standing between a Richard Serra installation: massive and imposing, but curved to let the light shine on the edges.

It's nice to know all of these cute boys will have jobs if the whole music thing doesn't work out.

With lush synths and a funky motorik rhythm section, "Mystic" is a celestial wave of chill.

Nearly 25 years after its debut, the band's cyclonic buzzsaw is unmistakable. Watch a highly stylized video for the A-side of Converge's ripping new 7" single.

The San Francisco band's debut album is a muscle spasm of Polvo's weirdo heft and Dinosaur Jr.'s slacker fuzz set to a disaffected punk squall.

In its first-ever music video, the black-metal band plays a section of its barbaric and regal new song in front of a roaring bonfire.

French president Emmanuel Macron was clearly into it.

The first single from ADD VIOLENCE, out July 21, suggests something of a return to the cinematic pop sheen of The Fragile.

Cornelius makes some of the coolest music in the world. In the Japanese musician's first album in 11 years, his plunderphonic neon-psychedelia turns meditative.

Less Art, a post-hardcore band with members of Thrice, Kowloon Walled City and Curl Up And Die, teams up with guest vocalist Meghan O'Neill-Pennie (Super Unison) to tell the Juárez bus hunter's story.

Mackenzie Scott portrays a housewife in curls, a husband in a cowboy hat, and herself in a video for the gorgeously languid title track for Three Futures, out this September.

Cale's "Guitar" opens Driftless Instrumental I, a compilation featuring one-take solo performances by guitarist Hayden Pedigo, pianist Andrew Abboushi, cellist Chris Votek and others.

Both Chromatics and "The Nine Inch Nails" have played on the Twin Peaks reboot so far this season, and now Au Revoir Simone has brought its lush keyboards and harmonies to the Bang Bang Bar.