1/2 of Outkast goes solo, teams up with Scott Storch, makes the future out of pieces of the past. A real banger!

New knowing, pulsing, ornate indie rock–from my favorite band around.

A sunny single so happy it just…hurts.

The debut album from DFA rockers Free Energy is about being young, which you are.

The Field’s From Here We Go Sublime got me through my DS papers; it can get you through this week.

The final recording from Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté, master musicians from Mali. Mmm!

Burial’s 2007 masterpiece Untrue is the perfect soundtrack for your lonely night.

Soul singer/proto-rapper returns after a long hiatus with a hard-hitting and eerily-produced record.

Brother/sister Swedes return with a weird but wonderful “electro-opera” about Charles Darwin.

With a voice sung through murky grit, warpaint will break your heart as if you’d loved a shadow your whole life.

In case you don’t know who I am, I’ll be the guy on Cross Campus with the flowing purple shirt, gold chain, boombox, and attitude too bad to handle.

Don’t worry, my midterm-fearing friends: Thom Yorke is here.