British singer/songwriter Beth Orton is releasing a new album, The Ground Above, on June 26 via Partisan. This week she ...

Though it’s reputed to be the most widely spoken musical language in the world today, rock and roll was born on the margins. The offspring of marginalized bluesmen, backwoods country singers, broke ...

Modest Mouse has released a new album, but does it hold up well against the band's best? Longtime fans might be disappointed.

Modest Mouse has finally put out new music for the first time in five years.

I Built You a Tower marks Ben Gibbard’s return to the studio after years touring the anniversaries of albums from his ...

Vince Staples. Zoh Amba. Death Cab for Cutie. Host Stephen Thompson chats with Laura Grant from WEXT in New York about their favorite albums out Friday, June 5. Plus, a handful of NPR Music writers ...

We’ve got a bunch of winners here in Indie Basement this week, including a collaboration between German experimental duo ...

The EvoFox Banshee 2 packs tri-mode wireless, a PixArt sensor, an LCD display, and six programmable buttons into a sub-Rs ...

Modest Mouse's new album, An Eraser and a Maze, includes several songs one might interpret as being about grieving death. The ...

The Courant’s arts picks for May 31 through June 6 also include national tours of “The Music Man” and “Les Miserables” and ...

“Let's go to the opera / since all of our favorite memories have failed us.” Selecting the opening track of a mixtape is one of the most important decisions you will ever make in your life. It’s the ...

Legendary photojournalist Martin Parr once said “all photography is propaganda.” Were he alive today, one might ask him whether the statement applies to photoshopped DM exchanges. NBA Hall of Famer ...