Combining headlong distortion with radically honest lyrics, Perfect Pussy are one of the year's boldest new rock bands. Evan Minsker talks to singer Meredith Graves about airing out her most personal feelings in public and much more.

The versatile New York-based electronic producer dropped his first track, "Mad Disrespect", just 18 months ago, to instant acclaim. He talks to Gabriel Szatan about early encounters with Miami bass, Black Dice, and "outsider house."

Growing up as a second-generation Ethiopian immigrant, this singer felt both inside and outside of her own culture—an in-betweenness she mines in her own music, which combines R&B and future-minded electronics. By Ruth Saxelby.

After moving from Canada, to Brazil, to America—making music and internalizing influences ranging from Aphex Twin to Modest Mouse along the way—this singer/producer is finally ready to share his songs with the rest of us. By Evan Minsker.

This beatmaker out of Providence, Rhode Island, combines sparkling, high-definition sounds with hypnotic vocal samples sourced from the darkest corners of YouTube to make music that hits hard in headphones or the club. By Andrew Gaerig.

This UK electronic producer may be highly elusive, but his playful, one-of-a-kind music is anything but as it inhabits a neon blur of contradictions: minimal and maximal, pleasure-pushing and high-concept, boy and girl, trap and house. By Larry Fitzmaurice.

This 24-year-old Australian artist writes shambling folk songs about the dangers of gardening, the benefits of masturbation, and the quiet crises of modern relationships, all with a keen eye for detail and a wicked sense of humor. By Jayson Greene.

With roiling beats, floating vocals, and an ominous grace, this UK artist makes trip-hop for a new time. Carrie Battan talks with her about cracked bones, ballet, and living in your own head.

Informed by-- but decidedly not beholden to-- the heft and seriousness of black metal, this brutal New York City act eschews typical notions of genre for a more open-minded and analytical "vision-based" approach, as Jenn Pelly finds out.

Inspired by the reckless sounds, whip-smart lyrics, and who-gives-a-fuck attitude of greats like Pavement and Liz Phair, this Northampton quartet talk to Jenn Pelly about injecting some personality into the current world of indie rock.

After working with the likes of SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, and Drake, this humbly devastating London R&B singer/producer is stepping forward on his own. He talks with Ruth Saxelby about one-night stands and uncomfortable honesty.

This experimental London composer has written handclap symphonies and scored music for MRI scanners. Now, as she tells Laura Snapes, she's taking her inventive streak into a more electronic realm aimed at both the body and the mind.

A wildly eclectic South African act that lilts from style to style-- reggae, pop, R&B-- with sweatless poise. Ryan Dombal talks with band leader John Withers about cultural appropriation, making music for commercials, and Vampire Weekend.