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The soundtrack to Heaven Adores You, featuring music by Elliott Smith, comes out Feb. 5.

Review: Elliott Smith, ‘Heaven Adores You’

The soundtrack to a new documentary inventories the periphery of the late singer’s catalog: unheard early recordings, instrumentals, collaborations, live appearances and other illuminating footnotes.

Dr. Dog's new album, The Psychedelic Swamp, comes out Feb. 5.

Review: Dr. Dog, ‘The Psychedelic Swamp’

The Philly psych-rock band revisits some of its earliest material, now fully fleshed out. Loopy, charming idiosyncrasy abounds.

Lucinda Williams' new album, The Ghosts Of Highway 20, comes out Feb. 5.

Review: Lucinda Williams, ‘The Ghosts Of Highway 20’

The singer-songwriter’s new double-length set is a road album of a sort, as well as a remarkable distillation of Williams’ writerly gifts.

Sidestepper's new album, Supernatural Love, comes out Feb. 5.

Review: Sidestepper, ‘Supernatural Love’

Richard Blair reassembles his innovative Afro-Colombian pop band, and the result never looks back. Instead, it shimmers and percolates while ignoring boundaries altogether.

Junior Boys' new album, Big Black Coat, comes out Feb. 5.

Review: Junior Boys, ‘Big Black Coat’

The long-running duo returns with another set of inventive, era-spanning, synth-driven techno-pop that sets Jeremy Greenspan’s alternately husky and delicate voice against synthetic backgrounds.

KING's first full-length album, We Are KING, comes out Feb. 5.

Review: KING, ‘We Are KING’

The R&B trio, whose 2011 debut EP broke the Internet, finally follows it with an album of dreamy, idiosyncratic, self-produced soul music.

Tiny Desk Unit was just one of the many bands Teri Stubs filmed at the original 9:30 Club in D.C. Now, 56 of her videos live at the D.C. Public Library.

Old Videos Of Fugazi, Gwar, And Psychedelic Furs Now Housed At D.C. Public Library

It was the final show at the 9:30 Club on F Street NW, and Teri Stubs hadn’t worn the right attire….

Its name was Jonas: The blizzard of 2016 now has a theme song.

Weezer’s ‘My Name Is Jonas,’ Remade For Winter Storm Jonas

When he’s composing songs for his electronic pop project, Aerialist, Virginia musician Lary Hoffman looks toward the sky. The songs on…

Twenty-four women MCs from the D.C. region have made a new version of hip-hop classic "Self Destruction."

24 Women Rappers Use A Hip-Hop Classic To Tackle Violence And Sexism

In 1989, an esteemed group of East Coast rappers united behind the mic to record a funky PSA: “Self Destruction,” a plea…

Wolf Alice: Tiny Desk Concert

Wolf Alice’s music can be noisy and primal, but at the Tiny Desk it showed a different side, as it performed three songs from 2015’s My Love Is Cool.

KCRW Presents: Brazilian Girls

Watch the worldly, danceable band perform a new song, “The Critic,” from its first album since 2008.

Aubrie Sellers' new album, New City Blues, comes out Jan. 29.

First Listen: Aubrie Sellers, ‘New City Blues’

On Sellers’ debut album, the “garage country” artist’s songwriting makes her accounts of losing control feel like deliberate, calibrated catharsis.

Walter Martin's new album, Arts & Leisure, comes out Jan. 29.

Review: Walter Martin, ‘Arts & Leisure’

The former Walkmen multi-instrumentalist has made a solo album marked by its playful, loosely ambling, front-porch friendliness.

Benji Hughes' new album, Songs In The Key Of Animals, comes out Jan. 29.

Review: Benji Hughes, ‘Songs In The Key Of Animals’

A master of commercial jingles, Hughes knows how to stuff his impeccably crafted AM pop songs with humor and heart, pain and delight.

Saul Williams' new album, MartyrLoserKing, comes out Jan. 29.

Review: Saul Williams, ‘MartyrLoserKing’

The singer/poet/actor/activist’s newest opus is another slice of genre-agnostic, cultural agitprop inspired by a fictional miner-turned-hacker in the African nation of Burundi.

River Whyless: Tiny Desk Concert

The North Carolina band uses a typewriter for rhythm, a toy piano for whimsy and a harmonium for mood, as well as a gong, multiple odd percussive accents and subtle guitar effects.