Music & Culture

With the first single, "Hard Times," Paramore effortlessly flecks a disco song with Afro-pop guitar for a sound straight from a John Hughes movie.

The Saskatoon trio's songs purr seductively, with warmly shimmering guitars and an overarching subtlety that's inviting, never distant.

Somewhere in your music-listening life, you've probably heard something the Grammy-winning guitarist and producer has touched. Now, he's singing his own songs for the first time.

The R&B singer's new record is intricate and organic. It's the sum of his many influences, including pop, cumbia and childhood days spent interrupting Philip Glass' practice sessions.

Kendrick Lamar contains it all, claims it all, and doesn't have time for the single-minded platitudes people throw down upon him.

Starting with a description of the Pope's 1987 visit to the Silverdome, the Detroit rock band gives a smart and unsettling performance in the woods outside Portland, Ore.

The new theme song for 'Bill Nye Saves the World' comes courtesy the former Odd Future frontman.

Floating Points visits the Mojave Desert to rehearse and finds an unexpected collaborator.

Featuring members of noise-rock bands Harry Pussy and Little Claw, Taiwan Housing Project makes garage-rock scuzz scraped out of a demented sock-hop.