Lars Gotrich

The pan-generational duo Suzanne Ciani and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith pay tribute to the modular synth pioneer. "Don Buchla made it possible for me to share the way I hear and connect with the world."

The duo's music evokes the motion of ocean waves and sea life, as synths echo the natural world. Watch a filmed 25-minute companion piece to the pair's new album.

Justin Trosper and Sara Lund, formerly of Unwound, return with the band Nocturnal Habits. "People are right to think that this record is a natural follow-up to the last Unwound record," he says.

Bratmobile's Allison Wolfe helps lead the hilarious, sneering feminist punk band. Sex Stains filmed its new video in the extremely colorful (and questionable) bathroom at The Smell in L.A.

On its debut album, Crying ditches the Gameboy for synths and punk for pop. This is full-blown stadium rock, minus the teased hair, the laser show and the stadium — at least for now.

Before it begins work on its Roadrunner Records debut, the Baltimore hardcore's band new EP seeks to break down "physical, sexual, musical genre, world barriers."

Taylor Ross hugs the fruit-striped void and sends melody sideways down the yellow brick road.

There have been rumors of a solo album ever since he left Rage in 2000. El-P produced de la Rocha's first single, the propulsive, noisy "Digging For Windows."

After a 17-year layoff, the emo band's new single is the sound of musicians who've grown gracefully.

"You're a distant memory in the mind of your creator, don't you see?" sings Nick Cave in a haunting portrait of pain and understanding.

The Chicago band exists somewhere between Hoover's post-hardcore heft and Braid's weird hooks.

Named for the late Rolling Stones founder, the song is a moody and shifty piece of psychedelic pop.

After three stellar albums, the Portland doom-metal band lost its singer. Enter Kayla Dixon, a singer with soul, dynamism, drama, control and poise, all heard in the savage "Burn You Down."

The band's industrial music clangs and bangs, reflecting the nightmare of a cold world.

A new solo project from Speedy Ortiz singer-guitarist Sadie Dupuis is all pop and empowerment: "I wanted to make a pop song that explores the excitement inherent in getting and giving consent."

Joey Vannucchi's music looks to the terse internal monologues of Now, Now and the atmospheric-pop of Mew.

The Belgian hardcore band needles urgent black metal and melancholy melody with a feral grace. "We wanted the video to hurt," Caro Tanghe says, "just like writing down these words hurt to me."

Well, that escalated quickly. A border dispute goes horribly, hilariously wrong in a hyper-violent video made using construction paper, set to the Georgia band's deranged math-rock.

The Bristol indie-pop band likes to burrow between the sheets of sweetness and sadness, but also likes to perform body slam after body slam in Norwegian hostels.

Agalloch taught metal not only how to wander but how to wonder. Guitarist Don Anderson breaks down the 15-minute epic from 2002, which he says "still gives me goosebumps."