Despite writing and recording a seven-album catalogue of original music, Pond just can’t escape comparisons to Tame Impala.

Hemsworth isn’t interested in scoring the next big club hit. His music is subtler and more immersive; it’s best enjoyed in headphones.

The Brooklyn-based outfit makes richly textured ’60s psych-pop loaded with fuzzy guitar riffs.

Along with Nigerian Afrobeat artist Mr. Eazi, Brun is supporting superstar Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin’s Vibras Tour.

The Canadian electronic group takes a break from the EDM circuit to record a more nuanced album.

The French-born DJ doesn’t just occupy a niche in tropical house; he’s got the whole beach to himself.

Despite seemingly unbridgeable gaps between races and genders and political parties, Franti says the real battle is the personal tug-of-war between cynicism and optimism.

Frontman Spiller and his bandmates aren’t trying to cash in on Top 40 trends; rather, they’re making strikingly untrendy music that’s rooted almost entirely in stuff that happened 40-plus years ago.

The Orlando indie-pop duo sounds crisper and cleaner, but it hasn’t lost the lo-fi, bedroom-project charm that has endeared Sales to so many.

Both admirably attempt to put human faces on the social justice and sexual harassment issues roiling the nation.

Tired of the distractions of living in downtown Los Angeles, Caleb Cornett is renting his childhood friend’s house in Kentucky to finish his new, as-yet untitled album.

The uniquely Miami DJ/producer has been making dope EDM going on three decades.

Their sound is a collage that evokes strong imagery — empty stretches of desert highway, forgotten civilizations, lonely planets suspended in space.

Berlin-based electronic artist Zoè Zanias, known simply as Zanias, believes music is what separates us from other animals. She spent much of her childhood trekking through the rainforest with her mother, a tropical biologist, and falling asleep to the sounds of the jungle. Beautiful though exotic bird songs, she says, lack a key element: rhythm.

The project is very much a product of living in London — a claustrophobic city, in Edmund Kenny’s estimation, a place where it’s easy to feel faceless among the masses.

The subjects of Jose Boyer’s lyrics tend to emerge of their own volition while he’s working on a guitar or piano part.