Music

Defiance is exhausting. Mike Hadreas' cosmically expansive, baroque declaration of love also acts as a protest song, depicting his lover as a godlike being who sustains his spirit.

Watch the Brighton trio channel titans of experimental rock — Yes, Rush and Battles — with this weirdly funky, all-zones-activated jam.

The Bay Area band embraced the excesses of rock 'n' roll in its performance at last summer's Pickathon festival just outside Portland, Ore.

A Tiny Desk Concert as intimate as it gets (that's saying something). Just Sampha, a piano and three heart-wrenching songs that seem to double as coping mechanisms.

See the best photos from the music festival, featuring Diet Cig, Lizzo, Moor Mother, Weezer and The Revolution's Prince tribute.

In a church courtyard, Mendoza's yodel swirls in Diaz's gritty croon as the two songwriters perform together, on each other's songs, for the first time.

Choose your own dosage, but Witch Prophet's woozy R&B song for healing is meant to be put on repeat.

Shot just days before Portman gave birth to her second child, the video curves its melancholy around a new arrival.