Music & Culture

This was going to be the last album by Boris. But after last year's Pink tour, Dear finds the Japanese heavy rock trio re-energized.

Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, the sweetly synchronized guitarist and bassist for Girlpool, aren't really feeling it in a new video for their song, "Powerplant."

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.

An avid amateur musician, France's next president studied at the conservatory in his native Amiens as a child.

The show last graced the Big Apple in 2003.

Under the name Ghosting, Melbourne producer Andrei Eremin is reinventing Studio Ghibli movies as a beat tape. His mixtape comes out Friday.

The Library of Congress threw a retrospective, "Bibliodiscotheque," in honor of the genre's history — the event could be considered its finish line.

Los Angeles-based folk singer Azniv Korkejian says her new song, with its melancholic, orchestrated arrangement, is "a rejection of conventional romance; it's not something that I needed."

Whether it's pairings of peers, of romantic partners or of patron saints and acolytes — there's a pattern brewing in Nashville that needs attention.

Mike Hadreas' new album as Perfume Genius, No Shape, centers on his relationship with boyfriend Alan Wyffels. The couple tells NPR's Rachel Martin about making music as recovering addicts and gay men.