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  • Galactic may have begun as a straightforwardly funky jam band, but it's since evolved to incorporate electronic elements and a greater emphasis on hip-hop. Hear Galactic in an interview and performance from WXPN.
  • Jason Collett's music combines '70s pop-rock and Canadian country ballads, the latter a style he's been honing since the late '80s in alt-country bands around Toronto. He also belongs to the wildly prolific and musically incestuous Broken Social Scene.
  • The Glasgow-based indie-rock band joins World Cafe for an in-studio performance and interview about the musical and geographical influences on its third full-length album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks.
  • The Australian psychedelic rock band generates a free-flowing, fuzzed-out groove on its debut full-length, Innerspeaker. Listen to two of the album's tracks on World Cafe: Next.
  • The band's latest album, Big Echo, came out in March. Co-produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor, it assembles a wall of sound using a plethora of instruments and beautifully layered vocals.
  • The new track from the band's first studio album since 2008 recalls the melodic, lead-foot-riff-fueled, progressive attack of ...And Justice For All.
  • On its fifth album, the English band crafts a rich and playful swirl of Technicolor overdrive, suitable for rowdy keggers, children's birthday parties and just about any celebration in between.
  • Watch the Brooklyn band perform a beautiful new song from the upcoming Twentytwo In Blue, recorded live on a warm Saturday evening in Oregon.
  • The Italian noise-rock band channels its inner Hüsker Dü with a big, buzzy salvo driven by an urgent melody.
  • The NPR Slingshot band puts down the synths and picks up the guitars in the video for its second single.
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