Stephen Thompson

Fresh off its first album in 22 years, the U.K. shoegaze band performs the dream-pop ballad "Sugar For The Pill" at a Brooklyn shuffleboard parlor.

Hear "Time's Always Leaving," the rousing first single from the folk-rock band's forthcoming third album, due out Sept. 15.

"Heaven I Know" has a stately, epic quality to it, from a chilling repetition of the opening count-off to vocal effects that conjure memories of Imogen Heap.

The Gossip singer's solo debut recasts her as a versatile, pop-minded rock star who can still shake the rafters with her voice when the moment calls for it.

In 2006, the singer took a break from the dance-pop group Metric to record solemnly gorgeous solo music. In September, she and her band The Soft Skeleton will return with Choir Of The Mind.

Lorde's Melodrama comes out June 16, and she's already released its fourth single: a stormy epic about regret called "Sober," timed to coincide with the start of an eventful weekend.

The new album's first single, "Call It Dreaming," strips Sam Beam's sound back down to its warm, relatively unadorned essence.

On his band's first album in six years, Robin Pecknold seeks peace in a chaotic world — and works to that end by crafting songs that soothe without forgoing creative ambition.

Capacity takes singer Adrianne Lenker to quieter and more private places, with an inward-facing sound to match her ever richer, altogether more intimate storytelling.

The Killers' 2004 hit has never entirely disappeared from the U.K. charts. Is the song just that great? (Yes.)

The first single from the band's fifth album describes a loud, media-saturated world in which instant gratification seems to make everyone less happy.

On August 18, the band returns with S/T, an album that both sounds like Rainer Maria and reflects the far-flung journeys its members have taken individually.

Clad in old-man makeup, Dave Grohl's band returns with a blistering new song — and a video in which the violent elderly are unleashed on an unwitting world.

If "Still Summer" had been recorded by The Cars in 1984, it'd already be a classic.

Hear "Jog Along Bess" and "Glow Worms" from Mutual Benefit's album-length remake of Bunyan's 1970 classic Just Another Diamond Day.

A new video provides a perfect match for Saintseneca's mystery, beauty and undercurrent of deep weirdness.

With couplets as clean and exact as the guitars that chime neatly around them, the mathematical precision of "Mayday" never gets in the way of shaggy, ragged beauty.

"I Was Born" is out today, and if it's not in a car commercial by this time next week, every ad agency in America will have fallen down on the job.

Coffman's first album since leaving Dirty Projectors reads like a love letter to the act of going solo, in life as in music.

The Twin Cities band's latest project is a feature film called The Seeker, which builds on themes of love, optimism, pain and belief. Watch the video for "No Hell."