With Howl, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s best album, eight years behind them now, the Los Angeles trio seems content churning out respectable moody-but-energized rock records that very rarely break the mold.

As one of the leading luminaries of the glam rock age, Bryan Ferry is not necessarily someone whose forays into the world of jazz you might immediately be intrigued by.

On Wakin on a Pretty Daze, the tension between self-consciousness and bliss permeates every aspect of every song.

It wouldn’t be surprising to find that Vampire Weekend had worn out their welcome five years after the release of their self-titled debut. After all, they look like the antagonists from a John Hughes movie with their precise outfits and coiffed hair.

Vampire Weekend is touting their third album, Modern Vampires of the City, as the conclusion of a trilogy.

Still Corners’ 2011 debut Creatures of an Hour introduced listeners to a band who built their kingdom on the smallest of details.

Bradford Cox has long maintained that music is for all intents and purposes his boyfriend. Often classifying himself as asexual, he’s asserted that a relationship would convolute his single-minded pursuit of music.

If Mikal Cronin had a lot going on in his life (exiting college, a relationship, and life in L.A.) around the release of his 2011 debut album, MCII is the sound of someone who moved on and found solid ground.

Volume 3 marks yet another nostalgic pop installment from indie magnates M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel.