Miimii KDS is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean.

Two of rap’s most cutting-edge bass assailants link up once again.

Love means sacrifice and Charmaine Ayoku’s fluttering dance-pop seeks total surrender.

The groovy piano-led club tune is a highlight off Marcus Brown’s forthcoming album, The Passionate Ones.

The rapper-producer helms a five-minute, nine-artist freestyle with a beat that squeaks “like two hyenas fighting.”

The classy, off-kilter song is the lead single from his forthcoming album, Headlights.

The pop star’s technicolor breakthrough sounds as radiant as ever on a deluxe edition, whose bonus material only highlights the magic of the album proper.

Newly pressed on vinyl, the elusive producer’s 2004 masterpiece is a love letter to Black Detroit and one of the most ambitious house records of all time.

Drolly titled and curiously sequenced, the London electro-pop quintet’s best-of collection highlights the group’s deadpan humor, winning tenderness, and remarkable consistency.

Twenty-five years ago, a masked nu-metal band from Iowa crashed into the mainstream wearing jumpsuits and banging on oil drums. Their self-titled album is an uncomplicated, hate-fueled relic of its era.

Before Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie became neo-classical post-rockers, they were collage-minded 4-track recordists. A new reissue of their 1995 debut revisits their spooky, abstract roots.

The late Japanese ambient maestro’s music is psychedelically heady and improvisationally homespun. A new box set collects his first seven albums for his own label, Skintone.