This week our playlist includes Dirty Projectors, Foals, Iggy Pop, The Flaming Lips, and more.

I think that when I was a kid and was first trying to write music, I would sit at a really nice piano and write what I thought of as classical pieces, although they weren't really. They were instrumental.

Contemporary soul singers usually don't fare too much better than hip hop artists when it comes to creative freedom, but Michael Kiwanuka seems to have made the album he wanted to make, except that no one's really talking about it.

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon tweeted that he "hates the Grammys" on Thursday, responding to tweets sent by Grizzly Bear vocalist Ed Droste, who was distra...

"We were part of the anger of the culture. ... When you look at the Occupy movement and a lot of the anger that's out there now, I think our music still holds. I wouldn't doubt if you found some of them listening to our old LPs." -- John Lydon

Justin Vernon has stayed busy lately. The Bon Iver frontman performed a short run at Radio City Music Hall over the weekend and headlined a Monday nig...

The making of Voyageur was both productive and painful as Kathleen Edwards happily explored new ground, went through a divorce and took her creative partnership with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon in a more intimate direction.

Kanye West loves strobe lights. From "All of the Lights" to "N----s in Paris," the Chicago rapper and Kardashian boyfriend seemingly earns an epilepsy...

Ryan Gosling has saved women from getting hit by taxicabs, walked around Brooklyn fiddling a bizarre instrument and broken up fights on the street. Fo...

The Flaming Lips will release a vinyl album on Record Store Day (April 21), entitled, The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends. The record will include co...

There will always be sensational outliers in the world of pop music. But for every Chris Brown, there is a Bon Iver; for every Lady Gaga, there is a Mumford and Sons.