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The Rolling Stones, “Black and Blue” [Super Deluxe Edition]

The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.

November 20, 2025
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The Notwist, “Magnificent Fall”

This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.

November 19, 2025
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Various artists, “All Things Go: 10 Years”

Benefitting the Ally Coalition, this collection features original material from the fest’s diversified wealth of artists—though it’s oddly devoid of any actual in-concert recordings.

November 18, 2025
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Hüsker Dü, “1985: The Miracle Year”

Packaging a set from their Minnesota hometown with reams of added live tracks from that same championship season, this collection sees the trio’s past and present melt into one new reality of stinging melodicism.

November 18, 2025
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Danny Brown, “Stardust”

Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.

November 12, 2025
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Khruangbin, “The Universe Smiles Upon You ii”

Recorded on the 10th anniversary of their debut, the trio forgoes reliving past glories in favor of quietly ruminating on what’s gone on between these two points, detonating everything in sight.

November 06, 2025
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Soft Cell, “The Art of Falling Apart” [Super Deluxe Edition]

This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.

October 29, 2025
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Miguel, “Caos”

The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.

October 29, 2025
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Bruce Springsteen, “Nebraska ’82” [Expanded Edition]

With the oft-rumored electric version of Bruce’s unhappiest album as its centerpiece, this five-disc collection helps to inform the maudlin medicine that fills the songwriter’s new biopic.

October 24, 2025
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The Lemonheads, “Love Chant”

Evan Dando finds a middle ground between nostalgia and the present with his grunge-pop outfit’s latest LP, which isn’t any less messily melancholic than the project’s early-’90s peak.

October 22, 2025

D’Angelo / photo by Rozette Rago

In Memoriam
At Voodoo’s End: D’Angelo (1974-2025)

The artist who all but invented “neo-soul” passed away today at the age of 51.

October 14, 2025
Film + TVIn Conversation
Richard O’Brien on “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at 50

The film’s creator looks back on five decades of the cult classic as it’s further immortalized with a new Ultra HD Blu-ray release and a book of Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes production photos.

October 14, 2025
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John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory, “Power to the People: The Ultimate Collection”

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, this nine-CD, three-Blu-ray set ties together his parents’ raw, grimy Some Time in New York City LP with a pair of shows at Madison Square Garden.

October 13, 2025
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Princess Nokia, “Girls”

With her fourth album of punky and provocative raps, the Nuyorican artist is once again reimagining hip-hop as a dangerous place to be.

October 09, 2025
In Conversation
James Fearnley on Keeping The Pogues’ Sonic Signatures Alive

Coming off a set of North American tour dates with a finale at Riot Fest, the co-founder of the Celtic-rock icons faces down 40 years of Rum Sodomy & the Lash with a smile.

October 03, 2025
Ashes and Diamonds Are (Hopefully) Forever

Bauhaus and Love and Rockets co-founder Daniel Ash discusses his grooving, menacing, and bold latest venture and how it represents an artist with nothing to lose.

October 01, 2025
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Labi Siffre, “The Best of Labi Siffre”

This 37-track collection celebrates the London-born songwriter’s genius run of crisp, soulful R&B albums in the early ’70s that have gone on to inspire hip-hop production, film soundtracks, and more in the 21st century.

September 30, 2025
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Robert Plant, “Saving Grace”

There’s a soft-spun sensuality to Plant’s singing as he duets with Suzi Dian on a collaborative collection of covers including spirituals, blues staples, and haunted contemporary folk.

September 24, 2025
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Cardi B, “Am I the Drama?”

Despite its VIP guest list, the rapper’s second album is less velvet-rope affair than down-to-earth contemplation, a pavement-to-penthouse-and-back-again journey through love and hip-hop.

September 22, 2025
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Devendra Banhart, “Cripple Crow” [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]

Further extending the LP’s dimensions, this reissue adds a third disc of outtakes, B-sides, and demos that only serve to fortify the project’s sonic asymmetry and emotional, quixotic lyricism.

September 11, 2025
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