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Capturing the existential uncertainty and anguish of being alive right now, each of the eight tracks on the Portland-based songwriter’s new record feels like some kind of séance.

Originally released on Matador in 1996, this expanded version of the Milwaukee duo’s third LP of deliberately provocative slacker-rock emphasizes the unexpected tenderness at its center.

The band’s frontman takes us through the winding passages of their grief-stricken LP An Eraser and a Maze after an initial meeting around 2021’s The Golden Casket ran well off-course.

The Blood Brothers’ Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato discuss Terraform the Afterlife, the debut LP from their new supergroup additionally featuring members of OFF! and Glassjaw.

With a muted sense of emotional gravitas, Ella Williams’ fourth album strives for the heavens, but runs out of steam halfway there.

A deceptively heavy record behind its jaunty melodies and catchy choruses, the Colorado punks’ second LP is a cold shower that makes you feel fully alive.

Victims of the Trump administration’s attack on the Smithsonian’s “anti-American” collections, the artists—along with Galindo’s wife Andrea Arroyo, whose artwork was targeted during Trump’s first term—speak to the power their art holds.

The pop star’s third record sounds like it was made by someone whose ideas are still in transition rather than by someone who’s reached the edenic destination alluded to in its title.

Ahead of this weekend’s event at the Hollywood Bowl featuring Beck, Devo, Jenny Lewis, Jim James, Karen O, and many more, the Bowl’s VP of programming shares how it all came together.

It’s the latest taste of his new album, Oh Yeah?, which also features Erykah Badu and Cecile Believe.