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Dirty Projectors' songs mix controlled cacophony and catchy melody. Those extremes dominate the band's new Rise Above, on which it attempts to reconstruct and remake Black Flag's 1981 album Damaged.

On "24 Hours a Day," amid twangy strings, Elana James bursts into her own particular blend of bluegrass, western swing and jazz. The fiddler has traveled a winding road since the acrimonious breakup of her band Hot Club of Cowtown.

The latest musical sensation from Europe, Ayo Ogunmakin performs songs from her new album, Joyful, and talks about her plans to take the music world by storm. The album has already gone double-platinum in France.

Here's a look at a few CDs that hit stores today, including debuts from Vampire Weekend and Kate Walsh, a solo project from Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, and the 1,473rd album from Willie Nelson.

The Georgetown University professor — author of an acclaimed biography of Tupac Shakur — says hip-hop has its excesses, but at its best it's a high art, a politically acute brand of pavement poetry.

Explosions in the Sky's Mark Smith and Eluvium's Patrick Cooper combine their atmospheric sounds — one stormy and majestic, the other plaintive and evocative.

The young French-Brazilian singer-songwriter-producer continues his foray into new dimensions of soulful futurism.

Jarring, intense electronics give the Michigan singer-songwriter's sweet pop vocals a dark, luscious edge.

Radiant warmth meets laconic cool in a breezily beautiful duet between the Mazzy Star singer and the Philly rocker.

Woods hadn't planned to make any new music in 2017, but after last year's election, the folk-rock band decided to focus on love.

With its subtle strings and sly infectiousness, Heart Murmurs is no less than an attempt to craft a new batch of pop standards. Whether Messersmith succeeds depends mostly on how many people are lucky enough to hear him.

After years of flirting with mainstream success, Holly Miranda finally makes her solo debut on XL, with The Magician's Private Library. The album is darker and more atmospheric than her former band, The Jealous Girlfriends, and her lyrics are full of dreamlike imagery. She performs songs from the new album in the World Cafe studio.

Hear the former (and future) Sleater-Kinney singer's fine new solo album, which sounds surprisingly muted compared to the raging wails of her past, but which nevertheless finds Tucker in a bold and exploratory place. The album will stream here in its entirety until its release on Oct. 5.

Inspired by the emotionally charged and virtuosic music of the Baroque era, the adventurous mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli's new CD is devoted to the dazzling music associated with the age of the castrati.

A new song by the Iranian-Canadian producer begins as a swirling abstraction that coheres around traditional instruments, sweet melodies and hip-hop beats.

Hear the first song from Bob Dylan's 35th studio album, Tempest.

Chi-Town crooner's latest single illustrates two sides of his faith: a devotion to the sanctity of religion, and a commitment to preserving the spirit of true rhythm & blues.

The Philly post-punk band's intimate story of war gets under the skin, cold and heavy.

The band's fourth album is the product of a cross-country sojourn by singer Erika Wennerstrom.

Katie Crutchfield has polished Waxahatchee's sound to maximize its glimmering-but-spiky forcefulness, but her words remain as bracing and unsparing as ever.