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Watch a gravity-defying video from a band whose songs often represent momentary respites from reality.

The Grammy Award nominee brought down the house during SNL's season premiere.

The enigmatic songwriter performs the lead single from his latest album, Mangy Love, at the Oregon music festival.

Public radio stations across the country captured hundreds of joyful, intimate sessions this year. Watch a few of our favorites.

Stream a mix of the best electronic underground tunes of the year.

We've got ambient atmospherics for a time of tension. Hear new music from Dedekind Cut, Visible Cloaks, Tycho, Yussef Kamaal, MJ Guider and Burial.

The protest album is alive and well in 2016. Listen to a synth-pop record created to fight the rise of far-right nationalism in Sweden.

Gallant, one of our favorite new singers, takes a backseat (literally) to Aiko in this mysterious video.

A quiet iconoclast, McCombs has spent eight albums enshrouding powerful messages in a '70s AM vibe while always exuding steely confidence.

It's Friday: Ring in the weekend with the six best electronic dance jams we heard this month.

Brexit or no Brexit, international exchange is the club's natural state. Hear a mix of new tracks featuring multicultural collaborations among EU-based artists.

The British pop-punk band writes songs from the perspective of social misfits, while remaining devoted to providing a voice for anyone who's felt like an outsider.

An instant classic from an anonymous source headlines this month's survey of the underground.

No other song released this year better encapsulates the marvel of the American mother than Clark's image-rich paean.

This month's mix features disco-house, '80s throwbacks, some acidic Afrobeat, a mix of mbira and 808s, and a great soulful cover of Prince.

The best of March includes would-be hits from Norway, Israel, England, Canada and the South of France.

I don't know if you'd agree, but we at Rx Dose have been noticing that the world seems like an increasingly bizarre place, full of instability and chaos but bearing also an endless supply of leftfield wonders. Has this always been the case, and we simply have more access to ...

Our first Rx Dose mix of 2016 is fashionably late, and all the better for it. Corralling our favorite dance tracks from January (and beyond) took a little longer than expected for a host of boring reasons, but hopefully, once you hear this month's roster, you'll agree it was worth ...

For those paying attention in 2015, some of dance-music's traditionally safe spaces were disappearing almost as rapidly as the great records (or Bandcamp downloads) to play inside them were being released. I don't know what Future and Drake meant by "what a time to be alive." But it certainly felt ...

As somebody who nit-picks the purpose of year-end lists, I have one basic question to ask here: What is an "electronic album?" (Do non-electronic albums even exist in the digitally saturated year of our Internet overlords, 2015?) As somebody writing an intro to such a list, it might not be ...