Lars Gotrich

The Nashville duo offers a raw and switchback-crazy seven minutes of chaotic math-rock.

The more you sink into the desperate motion of ISON, the more Sevdaliza breaks apart, discovering pieces of her identity, and challenging how the world prescribes it.

"Mic Jack" has got a lot of what you want in a Big Boi jam: an '80s R&B funk swagger fully loaded with sweaty synths.

"When I was 16 I dyed my hair black and I started wearing white Oxfords." John Darnielle shares the Nashville Symphony Chorus-starring barnburner "Rain In Soho."

"Castaway" should sound familiar — ecstatic rhythms and a soulful vocal.

You know what? We give up. Here's a rundown of new singles we're loving today, from Omar Souleyman to Faith Evans' Biggie Smalls duet to Dua Lipa's new synth-pop jam with Miguel.

MacKay's new solo album, Esker, is a rich and easygoing reminder that the American guitar tradition is a vast and detailed one.

The Kyoto-based band takes vengeance on an eye-patched boss in this wild tribute to gritty B-movie violence.

The ambient composer Wolfgang Voigt returns to the GAS moniker with an urgency that rumbles more deeply, with strings hung like endless cobwebs across dark valleys.

Call it math-pop, technical sugar-pop, J-punk, jazzy post-rock — whatever it is, the Kyoto-based Tricot makes sophisticated music that's as sweet and bubbly as soda.

Buildings' noise-rock is like a burrito supreme sprayed across the windshield: gross, hilarious and awesome.

The band broke up in 1996 after frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and bassist Chris Bauermeister got into a fistfight.

Heather Trost's organ-driven pop spectacle channels the delightfully cheesy and psychedelic late-night performances seen on Eastern European TV.

With the first single, "Hard Times," Paramore effortlessly flecks a disco song with Afro-pop guitar for a sound straight from a John Hughes movie.

Kendrick Lamar contains it all, claims it all, and doesn't have time for the single-minded platitudes people throw down upon him.

Featuring members of noise-rock bands Harry Pussy and Little Claw, Taiwan Housing Project makes garage-rock scuzz scraped out of a demented sock-hop.

The guitar-driven "Silver" is the sound of the world come crashing down around you. Waxahatchee's new album, Out In The Storm, comes out July 14.

The Scottish guitarist met The Smiths guitarist in the late '90s, resulting in the album Crimson Moon. Here the duo revisits a Bert Jansch tune from 1965.

No label, no care — Shamir just gifted us with a new album and it's already making Monday a whole lot brighter.

The music festival will be live-streamed across three channels, with sets from Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Banks, Lorde, The xx, D.R.A.M., Future, Bon Iver and more.