Lars Gotrich

Kero Kero Bonito is a glitter cannon to the heart. With the "Trampoline" video, the U.K. pop trio is here to make the world a little less drab.

The long-running rock band holds a mirror to the hard realities of America right now on American Band. Watch Drive-By Truckers' emotional performance at the NPR Music office.

The duo announces RTJ3 with a single from Adult Swim. With spooky production, low-end piano and John Bonham-size drum fills, "Talk To Me" sounds like John Carpenter took his synths to Valhalla.

Newsom celebrates the one-year anniversary of Divers with a song recorded during that album's sessions.

Featuring Taylor Mulitz from Priests, Flasher's lush post-punk is razor-cut with a bit of a sarcastic sneer. The band looks good in light blue for a video filmed around its D.C. stomping grounds.

Mannequin Pussy knows — and sounds like — the hell that is heartbreak, veering in short bursts between syrupy sweet pop and charred-walls-of-sound punk.

The Seattle band and the late rapper both received nods in their first year of eligibility. Chic received its 11th nomination.

Just like that, the emo band returns 17 years after its debut album — a bit older and a bit more introspective, yet still holding on to that teenage feeling.

Priests will release its long-awaited debut album early next year. Here, the D.C. punk band dives into the weirdness of the interpersonal with an out-of-tune piano gone haywire.

D∆WN's had a busy 2016, but it's all been been leading up to Redemption. The first single is a hyper piece of futuristic club music pulsing with robotic soul.

Co-written with Jazmine Sullivan, Blige's new song is classic R&B balladry meets trap beats with dramatic panache. Blige says it's "so personal it's almost painful to let it out."

With last night's announcement of her long-awaited new album, Here, Alicia Keys offers an acoustic guitar-driven song about starting a new family with the son of a previous marriage.

What does a new album from The Rolling Stones sound like in 2016? A lot like the old ones, if "Just Your Fool" is any indication.

Khruangbin's soulful, Thai funk-inspired instrumental becomes a wordless short film with a macabre and whimsical bit of magical realism.

Solange calls her new album "a project on identity, empowerment, independence, grief and healing." It's a floating melange of R&B, bold in its quiet and understated sounds, bolder in its message.

Hear the Austin, Texas-based Latin funk band's seven-minute workout of "Fairies Wear Boots," complete with horns, fuzz and a touch of dub.

Named for a Drive Like Jehu song, Super Unison proves that melody can still leave a nasty bruise.

The new track from the band's first studio album since 2008 recalls the melodic, lead-foot-riff-fueled, progressive attack of ...And Justice For All.

"There are no lyrics," Neige says of the gracefully savage track. "It's just vocal improvisation like Cocteau Twins or Dead Can Dance were doing back in the day."

American Band, the long-running rock band's 11th album, lives up to its name in how it digests, understands and challenges the notions of what it means to be American.