Neil Young’s 34th solo studio album is truly solo. On Le Noise, Young primarily plays crunchy electric guitar, unaccompanied by a band. The uber producer Daniel Lanois adds spooky vocal effects. Music writer and Young biographer Gary Graff gives us his take on haunting songs like “The Hitchhiker,” which was 35 years in the making.

During his professional wrestling career, Mick Foley has braved figure-four leglocks, flying chairs and something called The Texas Death Match. But nothing prepared him for a Tori Amos song called "Winter." 

Before we had genre labels like post-rock, there was just … rock. The Baltimore-based band J Roddy Walston and the Business pays tribute to that era. The band’s latest, self-titled collection rocks like Aerosmith – and howls like Jerry Lee Lewis. They join us for a live in-studio performance.

John Schaefer thinks Neil Young's new "Solo" album is anything but.

Buke & Gass is finally releasing its much-anticipated record, Riposte. Download "Medulla Oblongata" from the duo's debut album here.

The latest effort from the LA-based group Film School is Fission, a danceable bundle of harmonies, keyboards and guiding guitars of the reverbed variety. Download the track “Heart Full of Pentagons” for free here.

Menomena's latest self-produced, recorded and mixed album, Mines, is more loopy exuberant craftwork from the Portland, Oregon trio. Download the track "Toas" here for free.