We all know what they say about art and suffering: here in these dour environs Mirah's elastic, honeyed vocal quality sounds wholly different from the joyous past; the dark suits her.
Click here to watch and listen to "No Direction Home".
Norwegian New Yorker delivers a collection of jazz-inflected chordy pop, in which Lucifer, luck, and loneliness appear.
Click here to watch and listen to "Bad Law".
Germans make plinky electro indie pop and it just sounds great.
Click here to watch and listen to "Kong".
Indie pop supergroup doin it dense and cerebral style. Totally Canadian.
Click here to watch and listen to "War on the East Coast".
Sorely-missed Japanese New Yorkers return to give us skunky funkiness about ghosts n shit.
Click here to watch and listen to "Deja Vu".
Chicago's heavy, taut, grumpy, droll, elder statesmen. Caw! Caw!
Click here to watch and listen to "Dude Incredible (Live at ATP '09, Butlins Minehead)".
Former members of Unwound reconvene to fuck up your smug face.
Click here to watch and listen to "Loose Power".
Retro Angeleno chanteuse is a folk-pop gift to humanity + a single mom of twins by science.
Click here to watch and listen to "Put My Baby to Bed".
If it weren't for Bojack Horseman I wouldn't have realized this amazing electro Tori Amos existed.
Click here to watch and listen to "Impossible".
Enthusiastic heavy rockers from Japan are about 90% blistering, 10% genteel.
Click here to watch and listen to "Vanilla".
