Michaelangelo Matos

On knock knock, DJ Koze is more accessible than ever, without losing his essential strangeness. Róisín Murphy, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner and José González guest.

Through the '80s, Minneapolis three-piece Hüsker Dü helped broaden the ambitions and parameters of punk rock. Now, after years of work, its early recordings have been rebuilt from the ground up.

It's fitting that this house-music collection comes out so soon after Daft Punk cleaned up at the Grammy Awards; it's a bedrock part of that band's roots.

"Tamidit In Aicha" is raw and scrawny-sounding, but it also pulses with life and good cheer.

Danny Tenaglia and Justin Berkmann tell stories about Levan, widely fêted as the greatest DJ of all.

Kid Creole and his band The Coconuts are an unlikely source for one of the year's kindest songs: "Stony and Cory."

In the 1990s, American record labels pushed European dance music. But the party didn't last forever.

Indie rock and techno music don't generally find much overlap in their audiences. But the latest release from a German techno producer who goes by the name Pantha du Prince is finding success in attracting fans accustomed to songs built around lyrics.