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Best known as a member of the Stars and Broken Social Scene, Millan draws on themes of love and loneliness, and gives in to her country whims with her own take on the whiskey-drenched confessional.

Intimate, acoustic folk meets experimental electronica in a night of music, featuring Juana Molina, Jose Gonzalez and Psapp, originally webcast live on NPR.org July 1 from WXPN in Philadelphia.

Jon-Rae Fletcher may be Canada's finest indie-gospel-country-soul songwriter, and his backing band The River — a rotating cast of friends who occasionally include members of a gospel choir — accompanies his charismatic odes to sex, drinking, rock 'n' roll and God.

Singer Brandon Summers' vocal cords had been severely damaged following The Helio Sequence's last album and tour, necessitating a long period of recovery. Wrapping shoegazer rock in '60s doo-wop, "Keep Your Eyes Ahead" is his passionate plea to maintain focus in the face of long odds.

"Cold Blooded," from Shivaree's new covers album Tainted Love, sounds harder and more guitar-heavy than Rick James' original. The song manages to hit a deep funk groove in spite of its near-complete lack of syncopation.

On this week's show we roll the windows down with a wind-whipped, sun-dappled mix of rock and pop, including premieres from Bishop Allen and LP.

On its fifth album, the English band crafts a rich and playful swirl of Technicolor overdrive, suitable for rowdy keggers, children's birthday parties and just about any celebration in between.

Borrowing from Persian music and American jazz, two Iranian women come together to create a singular sound.

The Montreal band recorded its new album within earshot of a since-closed discotheque, and it shows. No One Is Lost prioritizes lightness and bittersweet uplift over the devastation of past records.

United by a taste for pop, folk and vocal jazz, Inara George, Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark began collaborating in 2006. While they focused on their solo projects, their work as The Living Sisters was pure hobby. But in 2009, they recorded Love to Live, released last month.

Stream the new album by singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, who has a gift for making the complicated sound effortless.

Recorded in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, this is a record with an explorer's heart.

Mitchell's folk opera Hadestown enlists the services of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon as the legendary Greek hero Orpheus. In "If It's True," Vernon's tone of resignation, denial and doubt reflects a complicated swirl of emotions.

Van Etten's new album, Tramp, is titled after the touring artist's time of essential homelessness. It's full of unresolved restlessness, infinite-loop longing and expansive vocals.

The jazz bassist says there's nothing more illuminating than improvisation. His newest album, Come Sunday, is a collaboration with the late pianist Hank Jones.

The second-generation Sri Lankan-American is an accomplished guitarist and a natural bluesman.

In "The Gravedigger's Song," Lanegan's raspy croak is without a doubt his most valuable asset.

Bianca and Sierra Casady make strange but beautiful music together as CocoRosie. Imagine a cabaret interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien and you're getting close. Listen to the siblings perform four songs from their new album, Grey Oceans, on KEXP.

Though Conor O'Brien he tours with a full backing band, for this Tiny Desk performance he showed up with just his guitar.

The music of Jana Hunter, a Texas-born, Baltimore-based songwriter, is dark, yet spacious and hypnotic, with swaths of feedback and echoing guitars.