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Satanic heavy metal has never sounded so gloriously melodic.

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ALT CTRL is home to the latest and greatest in alternative music. Here, it’s as much an attitude as a sound—music that keeps things a little left of center and rough around the edges. This week, Modest Mouse returns with “Picking Dragons’ Pockets,” a dizzying single off <i>An Eraser and a Maze</i>, out June 5. Don't let the bright, punchy percussion and cascading guitar work fool you: “Picking Dragons' Pockets” is an upbeat reflection on the downward trajectory of humanity, how we've been desensitized in the face of madness, and how “we've been eating our own young.” Check back often, as our editors update this playlist regularly—and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

A fun day out in the sun? Game night? Impromptu kitchen dance party? This is your soundtrack to all those things and more—the place to find the absolute biggest chartbusters for the whole family. We regularly refresh this playlist with great new songs and old favourites, so if you like something, add it to your library.

Alpha Women is a space for redefining the meaning of a woman’s power. Power doesn’t have to be about fighting, standing up, or changing history. The power of these artists lies in their existence. From there flows truth, authenticity, vulnerability, nuanced representation. Taking center stage this week is Olivia Rodrigo with “drop dead,” the first single from her upcoming album <i>you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love</i>. The singer-songwriter has got a killer crush: “The most alive I've ever been/But kiss me and I might drop dead”—and she's unafraid to admit it, even if she's copping to some light internet stalking in the process. Enter Alpha Women now and add it to your library to keep in touch with the women making music on their terms, uplifting one another and challenging notions through the simple matter of being. Now, that’s real power.

Depending on where you're from or what year you were born, the word “indie” can mean many different things. But what's remained constant—from the wild, punk-indebted rock of the ‘80s to the post-genre freedom of today—is that indie, if it can be defined at all, is about an unwillingness to conform or be categorized. On the playlist formerly titled Untitled, these are the songs and sounds that share that spirit, whether it's psychedelic bedroom pop or interstellar R&B. Songs and sounds of the moment, if not the next.

Thanks to Ghost, satanic metal has never sounded so gloriously melodic. Blending touches of doom, psychedelia, and hard rock like watercolors, the cloaked Swedes paint odes to sacrilege featuring graceful harmonies and creeping fretwork. Their debut single, 2009's “Elizabeth,” set the stage with funereal axes and organs encased in shimmering onyx. Adding acoustic guitars to the mix, “Cirice” sounds like a thunderous anthem to an '80s horror flick. Even on the chugging “From the Pinnacle to the Pit” from 2015's Meliora, Ghost weave melodies as gorgeous as they are sinister.