It's not too often that you hear something genuinely, joltingly unexpected on an indie rock record these days.

Something is happening in South Jersey. Without a car, without a phone, reportedly just hanging around the house with his 4-year-old, Davye Hawk (frontman of erstwhile Philly rockers Hail Social) has somehow cracked open music's gooey, gushing heart.

She can do the brassy '60s girl-group thing with the best of 'e.

This rare tour celebrates the launch of his very own label, the excellently named Magical Properties.

 For last year's East of Eden, her second album under the Taken by Trees moniker, Victoria Bergsman enlisted a different set of collaborators entirely, traveling to Pakistan and working primarily with Sufi musicians, who infuse her sweet, gently melancholic compositions with dholak, tabla, flute, harmonium and spine-tingling qawwali vocals.

What to expect when these veteran hometown DJ bros take the stage in full-band free-form freak-out mode: disco-punk, acid-house, psychedelia, tropicalia, glossolalia? 

This Swedish trio is on a Stateside tour culminating with an appearance at New York's Unsound Festival, but there's little that's palpably electronic about their music

For better or worse, Fanfarlo's sound should be instantly familiar to anyone who's paid the slightest attention to the tasteful, tuneful indie rock of the past decade

If you've gotta squeeze The Big Pink into a handy single-serving sorting slot, the label'd be "shoegaze," simple enough.

The album finds her grappling head-on with her conflicted cynicism about West Coast vapidity.