Music Reviews

Red Death is a D.C. thrash band raised on hardcore. Its burly new single takes direct aim at the systemic flaws that ignore black lives.

Ka Baird's hypnotic flute playing is looped into a wordless mantra, "a back and forth between the material and spiritual," she tells NPR.

Metallica's 1986 album elevated thrash to high art. A deluxe box set contains several riff tapes and outtakes, including an early demo of the title track.

Featuring members of Trans FX, CC Dust and Vexx, the Olympia trio channels the dream-pop of Cocteau Twins and retro dance sounds of Saint Etienne.

Max Clarke arrives with a dusty, beautiful collection of understated but sharply written songs that play out like a montage. On "Widow's Window," he whispers to a sill.

The Chicago-based guitarist digs into his English heritage for a traditional folk song featured on a new holiday music compilation from Bloodshot Records.

Liza Anne cracks open the cage of anxiety she says she's lived in for most of her life with a seething, slow burn of a track.

Featuring a melodeon, concertina and fiddle, the English folk trio's euphoric "Ricer II" circles round and round like a kitten chasing its tail.

Electronic music as it is now known and used would not exist without Derbyshire and her spirit of human, sonic manipulation.

The Chilean rocker from Germany talks about his latest musical project, The Desdamonas.