Lars Gotrich

Robert Ellis has fully embraced his role as Texas troubadour, putting a little Gram Parsons-style honky-tonk into the bedazzled piano-pop of Elton John.

Dunn's sublime song, which features vocals from Zola Jesus, has a new video in which Turkish actress Melisa Şenolsun performs a surreal ritual for survival and self-realization.

We are all Viola Davis, staring out of a window, crying and listening to Sade.

The chaotic hardcore band revs up a commercial-grade motor of riffs that flay, blast and smear discontent.

Members of Extol and The Dillinger Escape Plan reach across the metal spectrum for a debut album wrapped in rapturously beautiful discord.

No matter how dark or disastrous, there's always been an undercurrent of grace to the music of David Bazan. He returns to his Pedro the Lion moniker for this memorable Tiny Desk performance.

Not many post-punk bands will throw down a four-on-the-floor drum kick, but then, not many post-punk bands are like Arctic Flowers.

For its upcoming 25th anniversary, the Austin emo band will release a book paired with two new songs that capture the warm frenzy of Mineral's signature sound.

Hear the jagged, jittery cover of the 1981 hit originally banned by the BBC.

Guitarist and singer Meg Baird and harpist Mary Lattimore operate at the frayed edges of psychedelic music, sounding at once elegant and fuzzed-out.

Like a neon light that never goes out, '80s synth-pop is still at the core of Carly Rae Jepsen's being. "Party for One" will appear on her 2019 album.

Kacey Musgraves can sing just about any song, can't she? She stopped by BBC Radio 2's Piano Room for a touching performance.

From a new collection of 7-inch singles, hear an early indicator of the band's unique synthesis of power-pop and punk.

"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" sees Tyler collaborating with Danny Elfman — yes, Tim Burton's go-to film composer — for the animated film's soundtrack.

Mariah Carey, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Wendy Eisenberg and Arian Shafiee both make rewardingly weird punk. But now, each is releasing an album for the solo guitar label VDSQ.

Charli XCX stars as Steve Jobs, all five Spice Girls and New Radicals' Gregg Alexander in her '90s-packed video.

"Volk" sounds like it should accompany a cinematic sequence of unspeakable body horror... or, who knows, maybe a really freaky, slow-motion food fight.

The Portland trio's sludgy, primeval metal is built to induce whiplash in less than two minutes.

Girlpool offers a pair of singles, each reworked and reinvented from Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker's solo recordings.