Foxygen Returns With A Strange, Epic Anthem For America
It's not easy to make sense of the Los Angeles duo's latest song, "America," which lurches from orchestral pop to oddball jazz.
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Roger Waters Announces 'Us And Them' Live Tour
The tour will include a mix of Roger Waters' solo work and Pink Floyd songs, along with some newly written tracks for an upcoming album.
First Listen: John K. Samson, 'Winter Wheat'
The former Weakerthans singer returns with an album full of gorgeous, vividly detailed songs about characters whose potential doesn't always lend them a pathway out of their own heads.
First Listen: Weyes Blood, 'Front Row Seat To Earth'
Natalie Mering's performances are framed in ebbing-and-flowing chamber-folk, set off by psychedelic detours and surreal manipulations of captured sound.
First Listen: American Football, 'American Football'
Just like that, the emo band returns 17 years after its debut album — a bit older and a bit more introspective, yet still holding on to that teenage feeling.
First Listen: The Radio Dept., 'Running Out Of Love'
The protest album is alive and well in 2016. Listen to a synth-pop record created to fight the rise of far-right nationalism in Sweden.
First Listen: Tanya Tagaq, 'Retribution'
Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer, marries modern pop with deeply-vested tradition to gobsmacking effect. The songs on her new album, Retribution, encompass terror, rage, ecstasy and bone-leeching sadness.
Steve Gunn Plays Between The Ties On An Abandoned Railroad
The wandering Americana guitarist brings new songs to a forgotten New York relic.
William Tyler On World Cafe
Traveling the back roads inspired the Nashville guitarist's latest album, Modern Country. Hear a conversation and performance.
Gifts From The North: 10 Canadian Artists You Need To Know
World Cafe's new contributing host and producer, Talia Schlanger, spotlights music from her mother country.