Stephen Thompson

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.

If "Still Summer" had been recorded by The Cars in 1984, it'd already be a classic.

Hear "Jog Along Bess" and "Glow Worms" from Mutual Benefit's album-length remake of Bunyan's 1970 classic Just Another Diamond Day.

A new video provides a perfect match for Saintseneca's mystery, beauty and undercurrent of deep weirdness.

With couplets as clean and exact as the guitars that chime neatly around them, the mathematical precision of "Mayday" never gets in the way of shaggy, ragged beauty.

"I Was Born" is out today, and if it's not in a car commercial by this time next week, every ad agency in America will have fallen down on the job.

Coffman's first album since leaving Dirty Projectors reads like a love letter to the act of going solo, in life as in music.

The Twin Cities band's latest project is a feature film called The Seeker, which builds on themes of love, optimism, pain and belief. Watch the video for "No Hell."

A restrained, whisper-soft Tiny Desk concert from Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin with songs taken from her debut album Don't Let The Kids Win.

For the PBS documentary series American Epic, Alabama Shakes' members used 1920s-era equipment to record a cover of "Killer Diller."

The track is one of two never-before-heard songs on B-Sides And Rarities, a career-spanning Beach House compilation due out June 30.

The Israeli singer-songwriter makes politically charged dance music — banging, throbbing stuff full of messages about power and independence.

For John Darnielle, goth isn't a sound or a style so much as a state of mind: a source of comfort and connection for more than just the young and lost.

On the Montreal-based indie-pop band's first album in seven years, Elizabeth Powell's voice captures a just-right mix of sweetness and ache.

To fertilize its barley, a brewery in Denmark is using urine collected at the Roskilde Music Festival. The beer is called "Pisner," because of course it is.

Loveless unlocks the slow-burning desperation at the heart of an electro-pop banger.

The singer has made a specialty of string-swept odes to perseverance, and "Are You Getting Through" is a particularly strong entry in his recent catalog.

Known for her work in The Pierces, the singer goes solo with a song about broken trust.

The ingredients of "Wishing Girl" are simple but potent: a whistled hook, Gil Landau's briskly strummed ukulele, and the sweetly plainspoken voice of Yael Shoshana Cohen.