Music

June West's music blooms like a desert wildflower, sweet and resolute in three-digit heat.

The Portland, Maine-based trio makes punchy, self-deprecating indie-rock about heavy feelings. Its debut album, Common Blah (featuring a guest appearance by J Mascis) is out in October.

Now 70 years old, Wayne Kramer — co-founder of the short-lived, influential Detroit rock band The MC5 — reflects on life as an artist, near-revolutionary, bumbling outlaw and prison reform advocate.

The Virginia-hailing R&B and jazz fusionist shares a new single about shooting your shot out of your age bracket.

If only Thug had kept this same energy on Slime Language.

A Gulfstream IV that was carrying the rapper and 15 other people from Teterboro, N.J., to London on Tuesday blew out two tires, but eventually landed safely in Orange County, N.Y.

The seasoned engineer behind hits from Lucinda Williams and Rhiannon Giddens gives fans a look on the other side of the glass.

Foodman's disjointed beats, clipped samples and flashes of whimsical melody sound like the soundtrack to a lushly deconstructed video game.

The Chicago-based artist, poet and activist makes music that feels like a quietly stoic challenger to a beastly world. Tasha's debut album, Alone at Last, comes out Oct. 26.