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Molly Siegel and Jeremy Hyman make up half of the art-rock band Ponytail. They released their second album, Ice Cream Spiritual—a clashing cacophony of Siegel’s guttural yelps and Hyman’s manic drums—last year. This past summer, they stirred the

Peter Silberman is the lead singer/lyricist/guitarist of indie band The Antlers, whose debut album, Hospice, Silberman penned during more than a year of self-imposed isolation. All that angtsy alone time seems to have paid off—the disc, which tells the

Aaron and Michael Weiss are the two brothers behind MewithoutYou, whose fourth album, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright explores the teachings of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (a Sufi mystic), creating fairytale-esque songs that

Kip Berman is the lead singer and guitarist of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a Brooklyn band whose self-titled album, replete with Berman’s put-you-in-a-trance-and-then-crush-your-soul lyrics, dropped this year. Berman, who used to trick friends into

Julia Kugel plays the guitar and sings with The Coathangers, an all-female, post punk rock band whose debut album, Scramble—packed with aggressive guitars and even more aggressive lyrics—is reminiscent of an all-night bender that ends with burning vocal

Mica Levi, a classically trained musician who composed a piece for the London Philharmonic last year as part of a Young Composer Series, heads up British pop/electro band, Micachu & The Shapes, which uses both traditional and found instruments to produce sweet

Gabe Saporta, formerly of punk band Midtown, is now the frontman of Cobra Starship, a poppy group whose album Hot Mess, featuring a collaboration with Gossip Girl star Leighton Meister, came out this past summer. Saporta formed the band after a vision quest,

Deadmau5 (a.k.a. Joel Zimmerman) is a Grammy-nominated electro-house producer who is never seen sans his Styrofoam mouse head. He recently released his second album of trance compositions titled For Lack of a Better Name, a spiraling, video game-esque symphony

David Griffin enjoys messing with conventional music genres—you’ve seen him play with punk band Golem and parody French pop group Nous Non Plus—and his new project, Hebrew School, is no exception. With songs in which traditional melodies are demolished

Ben Grubin is the frontman of Hockey, a synth-rock/dance band who signed with Capitol Records after releasing their homemade EP, Mind Chaos, last year. The disc, which sounds like a mash-up of Blondie’s beats and OK Go’s catchy choruses, will hit record