High On Fire guitarist Matt Pike slings one of the heaviest axes in metal, and shreds faster than ever on his band's fifth studio album, Snakes for the Divine, out February 23. Hear an exclusive stream of the title track below!

Leave it to Vampire Weekend to transform a fierce ska-punk classic into the soundtrack for a dance party aboard a mega-yacht in St. Barts. Grab your boat shoes.

MC Frontalot -- the rapper credited for defining the hip-hop subsect of "nerdcore" -- is back this April with his fourth album, and the leadoff track, quite appropriately, is an anthem written for Wil Wheaton, better known for his character Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Download "Your Friend Wil" below!

SPIN is fond of Odd Blood, the second album from Brooklyn experimental electro rockers Yeasayer, praising its combination of "hazy psych-folk" and "'80s synth pop and tribal-beat tickles."

After 20 years with San Jose, CA, punks No Use For A Name, frontman Tony Sly will release his debut solo effort on Feb. 16. The record, titled 12 Song Program, finds the singer/guitarist breaking away from his punk roots in favor of a more polished, folk-inspired sound. Download album track "Via Munich" below.

Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, the brother-sister duo behind Swede electro outfit the Knife, are an odd pair: they wear bird masks, rarely give interviews, and sent reps dressed as gorillas to accept their 2003 Grammis (read: Swedish Grammy).