Lars Gotrich

Co-produced by Utada and Floating Points, "Something Near Marseilles" takes the established J-pop idol on a hypnotic disco train.

And just like that, Pedro the Lion's new album is out now. Listen to Havasu in its entirety with David Bazan and author Hanif Abdurraqib.

The octet's strung-together influences – Talk Talk's whisper-quiet post-rock, The Velvet Underground's yearning drones and Chamberlain's rootsy noodling – mingle with ambition.

Pigeon Pit's folk-punk twang is as raw as it is rambling, but never reckless in its tender heart.

At the drummer's house in Baltimore, Turnstile's high-energy hardcore is surrounded by stuffed animals, presumably pogoing and windmilling in your imagination.

Daniel Bachman retains the chunky chord progression and pass-the-whiskey spirit of the Jack Rose tune, but you can feel the strings rattle the wood of his guitar with rowdy reverberation.

NPR Music's resident viking shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021.

The band exists somewhere in the deconstructed '90s punk nexus of Fugazi, Unwound and Shellac, but its high-definition payoff is somehow more psychedelic.

Join Lars Gotrich, NPR's resident Viking, for an eight-hour holiday music marathon on Dec. 23. Let's make the yuletide weird.

Join an online listening party featuring the NPR Music staff in a conversation about the artists who shaped 2021.

Aspidistrafly traffics in a lush tranquility, attuned to the ever-changing movement of age and landscape.

Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.

You don't simply listen to Sweeping Promises — you move, you groove, you strike a pose with an effortlessly cool 'tude.

Overo's "Another Year in Hell" is an exasperated thrust into Zoom-fatigued abyss.

Join us in an online listening party for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' first album together in 14 years, Raise the Roof.

'Magnolia' lays bare the winsome sadness of Cantor's sweet voice

A thrilling piece of drone music that stays in one place, yet brightens every corner.

Martin returns to the thriving synth-pop spirit of his former project, Joy Electric, with this glittering new single.

The 22-minute track allows Endless Boogie's rusted-out muscle car to cruise into gritty terrain with a cigarette-smoked hypnosis.

Director Robert Yapkowitz and singer-songwriter Margo Price join Bob Boilen in a live conversation about this new documentary on the folk singer.