Stephen Thompson

With the 2017-18 season of Saturday Night Live now a wrap, we consider all 21 musical guests from this year — from worst to best. Apologies in advance to Sam Smith.

LaMontagne's new song conjures images of soothing singer-songwriters like Nick Drake and Sam Beam, but it also takes unexpected turns along the way.

Nominees for the organization's 17th annual show, held in September, tilt heavily toward three of the genre's biggest contemporary stars. Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and Margo Price lead the pack.

The first single from Old Rockhounds Never Die is a brisk and unpredictable murder ballad that builds to a dizzying, rampaging climax.

The artist disappeared Tuesday night, setting off a police search and a groundswell of support from fans and peers.

"Plastic Skeletons" takes the singer's gift for evocative, concisely crafted, seemingly free-associated wordcraft and sets it against a swirling and forceful psych-rock arrangement.

In three songs from Reservoir, Gordi keeps her voice both unadorned and centered within warm, cool arrangements that include piano, guitar, pedal steel, a harmonium named Barbara, and more.

"Hunger," from Florence Welch's forthcoming High As Hope, lets the singer cut loose in a soaring, searching anthem about loneliness and desire.

Singularity plays out like a night's wordless narrator, so it seemed fitting to let Jon Hopkins walk us through it, moment by moment, in his own words.

Watch the singers perform an eight-minute medley of Bridgers' "Killer" and Gundersen's "The Sound," with help from Gundersen's sister Abby.

Tanya Donelly's beloved alt-rock band is back after 23 years.

As news swirls about culpability for Prince's death, his estate has released a major find: a long-lost 1984 recording of his classic composition, along with rare video footage from his rehearsals.

"Somewhere in the Mountains, Somewhere in New York" is the second song from When the Bird Sees the Solid Ground, an EP that's getting released in five parts.

On his band's new album, Will Sheff views crises and crucibles as opportunities to appreciate life's gifts.

Right now, the Earth often can bring to mind an exploding toilet. So go ahead, knock yourself out.

In the second single from this summer's Hell-On, the powerhouse singer belts out an ode to misfortune and, ultimately, survival.

For Olaniran, art is about big ambitions, bigger ideas and the relentless pursuit of joy and comfort within his own skin.

London singer-songwriter Lookman Adekunle Salami doesn't sing so much as ramble adventurously through treatises on the thorniest corners of human nature.

With uncommon delicacy and grace, the singer-songwriter spends her 10th album assessing her place in an increasingly unsteady world.

Watch the R&B singer perform her smart and stylish standout single onstage in her hometown of Austin, Texas, during SXSW.