There are a lot of indie-pop guys out there spooling out sad synth goo. But Brooklyn's Jack Tatum takes pouty art pop to new heights: Wild Nothing's forthcoming disc is a song cycle about the lunar cycle, and this single is a velveteen slab of New Wave disco – it's moony in every sense.

Listen to "Paradise":

“The Pretender”

This song wasn't part of the planned track listing for 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and was put together in a day. "It happened after we recorded a lot of stuff," said Dave Grohl. Yet it ended up as the album opener and the lead single. Grohl called it "a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." The singer hinted at the lyrics' political overtones: "Everyone's been f---ed over before and I think a lot of people feel f---ed over right now and they're not getting what they were promised."