Lars Gotrich

Seven years since its last album, the indie-rock collective returns with "Halfway Home." Watch the 13-member live performance and hear the studio perform.

Sun Araw's psychedelic western epic The Saddle Of The Increate explores the link between cowboys and Ancient Greek mythology. Watch a video for the click-clopping "A Chute."

The opening title track from the young guitarist's new album blooms like a field of Texas bluebonnets swaying on the side of the highway.

S***Kid's lo-fi rock 'n' roll is the stuff of GarageBand boredom that sounds like GarageBand boredom, yet the young Swede's nonchalance is irresistibly charming.

Only a year since the last one, the D.C. post-punk band already has album number four in the bag. Hear the weirdly catchy first single from Can You Please Not Help.

This song's for all the dirtbags that took their sweet time to text back.

Now Slowdive's first album in two decades has a name: Slowdive. Watch shapes uncoil in a video for the gracefully subdued new single.

Forget the 50 States Project, Sufjan Stevens is going to space. Planetarium's first single sends Stevens into an Auto-Tuned synth-topia.

Theo Hilton turns a song about oil refineries into a long and reflective conversation with a friend. Members of Elf Power and The Music Tapes blare the bridge's horn section.

Lydia Ainsworth, Phoebe Bridgers, L.A. Salami, Valerie June, Let's Eat Grandma and others sing us quiet songs on hotel beds and in art installations during SXSW.

In the Optic Obscura installation at SXSW, Hakim sings some psychedelic soul music for outer-space performed in a room that looks like outer-space.

"Laughter came out of this awkward place of losing myself." After her last album, Jesy Fortino went back to school to become a civil engineer. Her new album sounds like nothing she's done before.

The cartoon band's new album, Humanz, is due out April 28. Popcaan sings on the new single, which is accompanied by a short horror film.

Surrounded by long-hanging optical fibers, Ainsworth sings a stripped-down version of the slow-burning "Afterglow" accompanied only by an upright bass and light percussion.

The band's 2015 album, which won a Norwegian Grammy, will now be available stateside. Here's a great track from Sun Stare Sound for those that missed it.

In a hotel room near midnight, Bridgers shares a lullaby for the lost. You can't help but hang on for dear life.

Three years since Charmer, the mellow indie-rock band returns with a jangly single on a brand new label.

Watch the utterly unique Ukranian band play a quiet, contemplative lullaby that reminds us that we have "time to laugh and cry, time to live and die."

It's spring! A time for renewal and flowers and sunshine and... sadness, if Football, etc. has anything to do with it.

Watch the Brighton trio channel titans of experimental rock — Yes, Rush and Battles — with this weirdly funky, all-zones-activated jam.