Stephen Thompson

The U.K. band uses interviews, newsreels, propaganda films and its own stormy instrumental music to craft a fun-but-powerful statement about industry and automation.

The versatile Texas singer-songwriter mixes spiky synth-pop with softer, slower-burning reflections on the way human beings interact.

Molly Hamilton channels an animal's mindset in the dreamily yearning first single from Expect The Best, due out August 25.

Backed by a suitably low-key band, Macve would sound subtly radiant just about anywhere, from your nearest country bar to the most dreamily lit stage in Twin Peaks.

The gang tackles Netflix's new wrestling-themed dramedy, and then Linda Holmes interviews Master Of None costar Lena Waithe onstage in Los Angeles. All that, plus What's Making Us Happy this week.

The dream-pop duo's career-spanning odds-and-ends collection hangs together as a cohesive set of songs, even as it explores the margins and dark corners of Beach House's catalog.

The second single from Everything Now, out July 28, reflects on unrealistic expectations and societal pressure to conform.

Fresh off its first album in 22 years, the U.K. shoegaze band performs the dream-pop ballad "Sugar For The Pill" at a Brooklyn shuffleboard parlor.

Hear "Time's Always Leaving," the rousing first single from the folk-rock band's forthcoming third album, due out Sept. 15.

"Heaven I Know" has a stately, epic quality to it, from a chilling repetition of the opening count-off to vocal effects that conjure memories of Imogen Heap.

The Gossip singer's solo debut recasts her as a versatile, pop-minded rock star who can still shake the rafters with her voice when the moment calls for it.

In 2006, the singer took a break from the dance-pop group Metric to record solemnly gorgeous solo music. In September, she and her band The Soft Skeleton will return with Choir Of The Mind.

Lorde's Melodrama comes out June 16, and she's already released its fourth single: a stormy epic about regret called "Sober," timed to coincide with the start of an eventful weekend.

The new album's first single, "Call It Dreaming," strips Sam Beam's sound back down to its warm, relatively unadorned essence.

On his band's first album in six years, Robin Pecknold seeks peace in a chaotic world — and works to that end by crafting songs that soothe without forgoing creative ambition.

Capacity takes singer Adrianne Lenker to quieter and more private places, with an inward-facing sound to match her ever richer, altogether more intimate storytelling.

The Killers' 2004 hit has never entirely disappeared from the U.K. charts. Is the song just that great? (Yes.)

The first single from the band's fifth album describes a loud, media-saturated world in which instant gratification seems to make everyone less happy.

On August 18, the band returns with S/T, an album that both sounds like Rainer Maria and reflects the far-flung journeys its members have taken individually.

Clad in old-man makeup, Dave Grohl's band returns with a blistering new song — and a video in which the violent elderly are unleashed on an unwitting world.