Lars Gotrich

Spirit Adrift communes with the wide-eyed expanse of American doom-metal.

With Live, recorded at Pylon's final show in 1983, we hear a document that breathes and heaves, as these post-punk-disco mutants perform at the height of their evolution.

Join us for a free concert with Lucinda Williams, Thao And The Get Down Stay Down and iLe on August 4 at New York City's Damrosch Park.

Mizmor's looming, blackened doom metal is sublime and mesmerizing in this sermon about survival.

There's a point when a jam is just a jam, but when a jam becomes a journey... man. Here, the instrumental rock band turns and churns its long-form compositions into new forms.

The Salt Lake City metal band draws no line between beauty and doom. This 13-minute track shifts from a cautious prayer to swirling damnation in crushing riffs and a duo of violins.

The slow boogie of the Richmond metal band is set to the mystic heat of Joshua Tree National Park, where sands burn orange and the landscape drips like the rainbow in an oil slick.

Brought together by a shared love of R.E.M., Pylon and The B-52s, the Atlanta rock band navigates kudzu-thick paths in a love song inspired by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

The Richmond metal band's new album both expands and contracts the realms of extreme music; it's huge in scope and sound, with instrumental passages that take their time even as they destroy.

Dogbreth's huggable power-pop is the work of punks who write youthful, larger-than-life songs that still wrinkle at the edges.

The hooky and heavy "Sincere" issues a scathing take on dudes who lecture women about womanhood.

A member of the Black Twig Pickers, Bowles whips a meditative clawhammer banjo melody into a fury.

At this point, Dawn Richard — known these days as D∆WN — is simply beyond pop music. The Machinedrum-produced track celebrates cosmic desire with a video that moves the galaxy.

The New York band has one mud-crusted boot in '70s hard rock and another in punk-splattered '90s noise-rock.

Coming from a post-hardcore band that's always worn a heart on its sleeve, "Palm Dreams" is wide-eyed in its heartache, brought on by a perspective found only in loss.

#TBT to Katie and Allison Crutchfield's beloved pop-punk band P.S. Eliot, whose blasted chords and simple couplets are disarmed by a home recording's rawness.

Anderson's guitar is inextricably tied to the raw and seeking tradition of American music. The guitarist calls her fourth album an imaginary soundtrack to a science-fiction western.

A reissue of the landmark metal album Pink comes with a set of unreleased tracks, including "SOFUN."

In the early 2000s, Norma Jean helped give metalcore its shape, but has smartly grown with its fan base. The band's seventh album, Polar Similar, colors the chaos with brooding hues.

Slow is the first time Martin has allowed himself to look back on a long career. Martin shares his characteristically dry wit on album No. 14: "I'm like a minor-league ball player, man."