Douglas Q. Smith

New Jersey brothers Eddie and Jeff Nazareno have been writing and playing music for 14 years. But they didn’t combine their musical powers to form pow wow! until 2005. The band has ...

Digital textures, live instrumentation, samples and remixes. Kieran Hebden, a.k.a. Four Tet, is a conductor of these. Download his remix of fellow beat maker Caribou. The track's called "Angel Echoes."

The Argentinean singer and multi-instrumentalist Pablo Malaurie combines traditional Japanese sounds with South American folk. Download the track "Veni" from his 2010 solo debut reco...

The experimental musician Noah Lennox is best known as Panda Bear, one of the founding members of the neo-noise group Animal Collective. His latest album Tomboy was released in April....

Dirty Beaches is the solo sound project of the Taiwanese musician, and not so closeted lover of iconic '50’s Americana, Alex Zhang Hungtai. Download his song “Sweet 17” here.

In the fifth grade, Shirasaki was transcribing the works of the renowned American jazz pianist Bud Powell, and by age 12, she had already begun her professional career. Download the...

The Hundred in the Hands makes highly danceable, disco-punk pop music. Download the Brooklyn duo's "Dressed in Dresden" from its eponymous full-length debut here.

The Brooklyn singer songwriter Mike Wexler, whose influences include Pink Floyd, Scott Walker and former Soft Machines member Robert Wyatt, pairs his musical folk exploration with p...

Reggie Watts is an entertainer. He spins on-the-spot comedic free verse over on-the-spot free beats with an incomparable vocal range. Download "Every Day is Like Sunday" here from th...

The four punk-rocking 18- and 19-year-old teenagers of iceage (sans capital “I”) are musically beyond their tender ages. Download the Copenhagen, Denmark group's track “Broken Bone" f...

Download "Hotel Room" by the British duo Smoke Fairies. The track is from the band's first full length release in the U.S., Through Low Light and Trees.

With grins, grimaces, manic gesticulation and fervent beats of his drumsticks, the Philadelphia jazz drummer and composer Ari Hoenig directs complex rhythms and melodies on his inst...

The Seattle indie-poppers in Seapony released their debut album Go With Me last month. Download the fuzzy feeling track "Dreaming" right here.

 

Download the new single “Bedbedbedbedbed” by the Washington D.C. band Deleted Scenes here. It's from the band's third album Young People’s Church of the Air, which is due out in September.

Preview of the upcoming Radiolab concert event 'Curious Sounds' by downloading a track from Brooklyn's genre-bending duo Buke & Gass. Plus, get tickets for the show. 

The Toronto-based songstress and multi-instrumentalist Lou Canon released her self-titled debut album in May. Get a free download of Canon's single “Heart Of.”

The Brooklyn-based trio Regal Degal smashes and bangs out post-punk rock. Download the track “Making You Thinking” right here for free.

Chris Bathgate has gained comparisons to fellow contemporary folk artists like Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine and Damien Jurado. Download the track "No Silver" from his fourth full length release Salt Year.

The bandmembers in The Melvins aren't called the “Godfathers of Grunge” for nothing. The punk rock metal music of the Montesano, Washington group influenced greats such as Nirvana, ...

Mikkel Hess is the Danish musician behind Hess is More. His upcoming release Creation Keeps The Devil Away blends jazz, folk, disco, indie and dance music with a cinematic sense of hu...