Music & Culture

Known for its dreamy melodies, Scott Hansen's ambient project plays a song from its new album, Epoch, live for KCRW.

Originally written for Massive Attack, Valerie June gives an old song new life.

Just in case Dylan never gets around to picking up his Nobel Prize for literature, here are a few possible alternate candidates.

Featuring Taylor Mulitz from Priests, Flasher's lush post-punk is razor-cut with a bit of a sarcastic sneer. The band looks good in light blue for a video filmed around its D.C. stomping grounds.

The new solo album from the Girl In A Coma frontwoman is a fiercely brave, song-by-song journey through her experiences of addiction and recovery.

Mannequin Pussy knows — and sounds like — the hell that is heartbreak, veering in short bursts between syrupy sweet pop and charred-walls-of-sound punk.

Hear the pianist's portrait of America in a smartly programmed, wide-ranging anthology of solo piano works by composers past and present; male and female; straight and gay; white, black and Latino.

The British band's third full-length is proof of just how vivid and inviting psychedelic music can be in the 21st century.

The Americana innovator invites listeners into a shiny dreamscape that's both deeply informed by musical history and uniquely his own.

One of global techno's boldface names pushes himself into new territories on a collaboration album stocked with dance-music's leading lights.