Lars Gotrich

The guitarist responds to the quietude and complexity of his subject with bursts of compassion and even confusion.

The New Jersey band's groove-heavy, reverb-laden hardcore swaggers as much as it smiles.

Guitarist Patrick McDermott and pedal steel player Barry Walker unite again for a song as gentle as a sunkissed stream.

As they have every year since 1986, members of the Hall will select from a group of nominees – though these days, the nominees tend to represent a wider spectrum of popular music.

Some of us have always loved Beauty Pill's fiercely, intricately unique debut; the rest of y'all finally caught up.

Wheatie Mattiasich's dreamy, eerie music could fill a forest cathedral.

The singer makes four simple words into an Escher-esque puzzle built on loops and layers of her voice.

When the words in a song hit you in just the right way, they can stay with you. We're asking the folks at NPR Music: What lyrics did you hear in 2022 that you just couldn't shake?

NPR Music's resident Viking shares his favorite albums and top 10 hardcore songs of 2022.

Based out of Washington, D.C., Bartees Strange was the constellation connector of our genre-spanning celebration at the 9:30 Club.

Featuring a dueling guest vocal from Slough Feg's Mike Scalzi, the hyperactive thrash ripper takes King Crimson to the pit.

Costa's voice was a key part of the sound that combined Brazilian pop music, psychedelic rock and the avant-garde in the late 1960s.

D.H. Peligro, the longtime drummer for the iconic punk band the Dead Kennedys, died Friday at age 63.

The London rock trio crafts a musical sleight of hand with minimalist-inspired repetition and variation.

The title track from The HIRS Collective's new album does what the anonymous group does best: slamming together riffs and blast beats while celebrating the visibility of trans and queer outcasts.

Fever Ray's first original song since 2017's Plunge, "What They Call Us," is surprisingly subdued, but perhaps even stranger in its restraint.

On "This Is Why," Paramore's sound is somehow aqueous and taut, showing its three members barreling ahead at the most thrilling heights of their musicianship.

Joe Bussard not only sought out obscure 78-rpm records that otherwise would have disappeared, but shared the music with giddy excitement.

On a standout from the soul-shoegaze band's first full-length in 24 years, guitar effects swirl around a psychedelic R&B groove that shimmers with beautiful bluster.

The metal musician posts of the "emotional, financial, verbal and physical abuse of my wife and younger children," prompting Neurosis' remaining members to reveal they parted ways in 2019.