Music

There is "no point in wasting sorrow on things that won't be here tomorrow"

In the face of degenerative illness, a mechanic decides to take his life — it's a concept directly inspired by Shabason's own experience.

The album — released, perhaps, ahead of its time — fused occult themes with rock music. Often described as a cult record, its influence has spread too far and too deep to be so easily cornered off.

For this Tiny Desk concert, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner replaced her gauzy synths with a string quartet. The result is something to behold.

The performances of this trailblazing transgender singer — once radically visible, now long hidden — have been likened to tornadoes. A new box set is a document of a career that never followed rules.

John Kolodij sketches a future past with rugged Americana smoked in tea leaves, sheer drones wrapped in muslin cloth. Watch a video for "Black Grasshopper."

The City Music singer will donate all proceeds from his new song to Baltimore's Believe In Music education program.

Hear a stunning new song from our 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner, Gaelynn Lea.

The music of Sego is frenetic and immediate. In a new video for the band's song "Whatever Forever," the group considers complacency in the anesthetized frenzy of day-to-day living.