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The four members of the South African rock band BLK JKS (pronounced "Black Jacks") grew up in different parts of the country, speaking different tribal languages. And they listened to a great range of music — everything from local rhythms to Sonic Youth to Duke Ellington. Those influences converge in a totally original sound on the group's full-length debut, After Robots.

Driven by fiddle, guitar, upright bass and a homemade drum kit, the band Daisy Mayhem is back with a new CD. Big Old Life features joyful tunes drawn from hardship; it's the group's first release since lead singer Rani Arbo's bout with breast cancer.

The band's new album, Distortion, was influenced heavily by the feedback-laden guitars of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band set typically glum lyrics to loud, fast, and fuzzy instrumentals.

As assembled here, the songs on Indie Cindy form a worthwhile, frequently terrific document of a band forever in transition, even in middle age. It's music born out of chaos, same as it ever was.

New ideas permeate the band's 13th album, on which every song finds a way to surprise. Mastermind Kevin Barnes mixes a love of rock, funk and disco with unexpected ways to expand the brain.

Seven years and five albums into its existence, The Hold Steady is still making intelligent rock music. Heaven Is Whenever is the band's latest record, and it confronts themes of struggle, redemption and reward.

The U.K. band uses interviews, newsreels, propaganda films and its own stormy instrumental music to craft a fun-but-powerful statement about industry and automation.

Thanks to some nimble engineering, Armstrong has a new song coming out, complete with a backing track from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Engineer Earl Scioneaux III tells Gwen Thompkins just how he achieved this trick of time.

The Laysan Albatross was first banded (or marked) in Hawaii in 1956. Meaning, she could be even older than the current estimate of 74.

Trump's Supreme Court nominee will face tough questioning from Democrats during his confirmation hearings this week on abortion, guns, investigating the president, national security and regulation