The year's just about over, so it's time to share our list of the 50 best albums of 2023, including Wednesday, Kelela, Ratboys and Yves Tumor

Twenty years since the release of their haunting masterpiece Geogaddi, Boards of Canada have mostly kept quiet about its curious occult lore

Committing themselves to a seemingly total sonic reinvention on Double Negative, Low found catharsis in confusion and noise

Explosion's in the Sky's 'The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place' built a place of refuge out of subtle movements and quiet explosions.

Treble celebrates its all-time favorite albums with a series of essays on 100 life-changing and perspective shifting albums

Leaning further into their prog-rock influences on 'plastic death', glass beach deliver an ambitious and epic sophomore album

On his 2002 solo debut Fantastic Damage, El-P tapped into a chaotic and ominous mood, but delivered a set of bangers

From Alvvays to Weyes Blood, Big Thief to Undeath, and everything in between, we present the best albums of 2022.

The co-founder of the Minnesota band has died at age 55.

Looking back on nearly 15 years of dark experimental music

We survey two decades of artful aggression with our list of the 50 best hardcore albums of the 21st century.

On 2004's huge and stunning You Fail Me, Converge created a masterwork of emotional intensity and dark, ominous sonic worlds.

We asked Helen Marnie and Daniel Hunt about their picks for the best Ladytron songs, from 604 to new album Time's Arrow

From Alvvays to Weyes Blood, Big Thief to Undeath, and everything in between, we present the best albums of 2022.

As the year draws to a close, we kick off year-end proceedings with our list of the 30 best metal albums of 2022.

A high five to five great labels.

The best of what was heavy in a truly trying year.

Hear new track "Self-Regulating System."

Explosion's in the Sky's 'The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place' built a place of refuge out of subtle movements and quiet explosions.

The best of what was heavy in a truly trying year.

The group's new album is inspired by '70s and '80s action movies

Three albums back in print and available on vinyl

Aimee Mann will release 'Queens of the Summer Hotel', an album of songs for a stage adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, in November via Superego.

A guide to getting into the legendary Japanese metal trio with five of the best Boris albums, plus next steps and deeper listening.

The legendary metal band returns.

On Queens of the Summer Hotel, Aimee Man reaffirms herself as one of the best US singer/songwriters with a 'Girl, Interrupted'-inspired set.

Through 45 of the best industrial songs we chart the history of the genre from early musique concrete to its crossover with hip-hop.

Hear new song "Tantor"

A chronicle of America's most uniquely ugly art form through the ages.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Flaming Lips‘ 2002 album, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. And frontman Wayne Coyne has been revealing information about a 20th anniversary reissue that’s...

Get caught up on the greatest heavy releases of the past year—these are the 25 best metal albums of 2021, from Aenigmatum to Wode.

After creating some unique permutations of Norwegian black metal, on Perdition City, Ulver transcended it entirely.

On Engine of Hell, Emma Ruth Rundle strips away the heavier aspects of her sound to deliver something stark and honest.

On Engine of Hell, Emma Ruth Rundle strips away the heavier aspects of her sound to deliver something stark and honest.

As we reach the year's midpoint, Treble offers up our picks for the 34 best albums of 2023 so far—from Algiers to Yves Tumor

After creating some unique permutations of Norwegian black metal, on Perdition City, Ulver transcended it entirely.

With their two most recent companion albums, Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, U2 leave the door open without quite stepping through

Hear their new version of 1979's "Seductive Fantasy."

On their 15th album Memento Mori, Depeche Mode reaffirm their strengths as a band, delivering a haunting and strong set of songs

The 25 best of the heaviest and gnarliest records of the year.

Following up two grim and grimy EPs with Luxury Problems, Andy Stott makes beat-driven music that moves between dread and sublimity

New EP features a cover of Iron Lung, interpretations of Bach and Handel, and a poem from Daughters' Alexis Marshall.

See the new clip for the closing track from 'Engine of Hell'

Moor Mother has shared the details of her new album, 'Black Encyclopedia of the Air', out in September via Anti-. Hear new single "Obsidian."

Our favorite records from a year that we're ready to put behind us.

Isbell's latest more fully feels like the work of a proper band, one whose sound truly comes into its own here.

Bangers, ballads, anthems and rippers—we offer a survey of the best songs of 2022, from indie favorites to the biggest pop jams

Next steps for fans of a post-punk revival essential

With their collaborative album BRASS, Moor Mother and billy woods create something abstract, artful and incredible.

Leaning further into their prog-rock influences on 'plastic death', glass beach deliver an ambitious and epic sophomore album

Plus Titanic, Lost Girls, Forest Swords, Katie Von Schleicher, and more

Our list of the 50 best albums of 2021 is a cross section of gems from a strange year, from haunted gospel to orchestral rap maximalism.

Ahead of her next LP, start with five of the best Grouper albums in our Beginner's Guide to the music of singer/songwriter Liz Harris.

Hear the more drone-heavy new album from the veteran trio

On their 1967 cult psychedelic rock album Forever Changes, Love found themselves a band unstuck in time, and ahead of their time

Listen to a playlist of Butthole Surfers essentials

Hear new single "Dry Fantasy."