Today's Top Tune

R&B fans rejoice as NYC collective MICHELLE use their music as a platform to empower listeners through enticing harmonies and a catchy melody on “Expiration Date.”

Compelling songwriter, guitarist, social activist, and producer Jelly Cleaver has been unifying the London Jazz and DIY indie scene with her own mix of slinky, emotive sizzle, as heard on “Black Line.”

Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard has been hard at work on “Ocean Child,” his curated tribute compilation to the songs of Yoko Ono, featuring a wide range of guests including We Are KING, Sharon Van Etten, and Sudan Archives. Today we turn our ears to one of the record’s standout collaborations with David Byrne and Yo La Tengo as they conquer “Who Has Seen The Wind.”

After almost a decade, Young Prisms return with a slew of new fuzzy guitar songs this spring. Dripping with shoegaze emo, “Honeydew” will quench your yearning for a dreamstate.

Tapping into industrial sounds in the electronic arena, RÜFÜS DU SOL take a darker, more driven tone on their track “On My Knees” that is no less danceable for it.

Bristolian five piece IDLES launch a motoric, menacing sound on “When The Lights Come On,” which frontman and lyricist Joe Talbot calls “a poem of light and sound exploring the cold light of day.”

You may know Pauli The PSM (a.k.a. Pauli Lovejoy) as Music Director for Harry Styles, or as the drummer for Gorillaz, but he’s recently teamed up with NASA (yes, that NASA!) to create ambient compositions exploring the cosmos with astrology-themed songs, including the spacey sound of “Gemini.”

Today we’re excited to feature a song that drops from the luscious ladies of Lucius, whose boppy “Next To Normal” is culled from from a forthcoming new album “Second Nature.”

This new year, Cocteau Twins founder and sound sculptor Robin Guthrie celebrates his 60th year on the planet with a new EP titled “Springtime” that captures his signature sound and awakens renewal, as heard on “The Faraway.”

Smashup duo Wajatta (Reggie Watts and John Tejada) showcase their evolution in sound with new music. We hear them getting deeper into the groove and lyrics on “Something More Than This.”