Music

The self-titled debut from the xx, marked with a very mysterious giant X on the cover, is full of classic R&B soul-tinged girl/guy vocals over throbbing bass, and/or dreamy synths, with tribal drums tossed in for good measure.

The newly unpunctuated YACHT is just that--totally unpunctuated and breakin' all the rules in the electro-fied, stylistic hodgepodge of See Mystery Lights.

Yeah, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are still cool.

Sweet, then sad, then awesomely sunny, Yo La Tengo plays to every emotion in Popular Songs.

Combining girl-on-girl action with girl-and-God relations, Futuristically is as spiritual as it is sexually explicit. I

Zee Avi lures us in with swanky, old-timey, folk with South Asian flavor in her self-titled debut.

With a stage name like Zola Jesus, you wouldn't expect sweetness and light from classically trained singer/songwriter Nika Roza Danilova, and you don't get it.