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Mister Romantic, “What’s Not to Love?”

John C. Reilly’s latest role as a lonely vaudevillian singer of Great American Songbook standards sees him unwrap each melody and lyric without irony or snarky dispatch.

June 24, 2025
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The B-52’s, “The Warner and Reprise Years”

Released in celebration of Pride Month, this repackaging of the Athens new wave icons’ first 13 years of music makes you want to live through their original release dates all over again.

June 24, 2025
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Matmos, “Metallic Life Review”

Composed entirely from the vibrations of metal objects, the compact experimental duo’s new anticapitalist allegory is as unique a prospect as a fingerprint.

June 23, 2025
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Yaya Bey, “Do It Afraid”

In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

June 20, 2025
In Memoriam
The Warmth of the Sun, The Burden of Genius: Remembering Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys co-founder was his own world-builder—a universalist whose visions will never be attempted, let alone replicated.

June 12, 2025
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Lil Wayne, “Tha Carter VI”

Upholding his fascination with the crunch and snap of shiny alt-rock, Weezy’s sixth chapter of his ongoing soap opera is as eclectic as its list of features might suggest.

June 10, 2025
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Pulp, “More”

The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

June 06, 2025
Ghost in the Ice Machine: Behind The Residents’ Upcoming Exotikon Performance of “Eskimo”

The long-running avant-garde collective will bring their most epic conceptual work to life nearly 50 years after its release at the LA music and arts festival this weekend.

June 02, 2025
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Cola Boyy, “Quit to Play Chess”

Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.

May 29, 2025
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Stereolab, “Instant Holograms on Metal Film”

Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

May 22, 2025
Maren Morris Is Feeling Her Way Through It

The alt-pop songwriter reflects on her new album D R E A M S I C L E, the life changes that inspired its lyrics, and learning to just be her “messy self” in the studio.

May 22, 2025
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Sparks, “MAD!”

The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

May 21, 2025
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Danny Wilson, “Complete”

This five-CD box set contains both LPs from the Scottish sophisti-pop trio, along with a wealth of B-sides, rare remixes, and a full disc of live recordings from a 1990 show in London.

May 15, 2025
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Ezra Furman, “Goodbye Small Head”

A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

May 14, 2025
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Kali Uchis, “Sincerely,”

Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

May 13, 2025
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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, “Naturally” [20th Anniversary Edition]

This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

May 13, 2025
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PinkPantheress, “Fancy That”

The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.

May 12, 2025
Reviews
Jenny Hval, “Iris Silver Mist”

The Norwegian art-pop songwriter’s seventh album aims to incorporate senses beyond sound to more completely immerse the listener (and smeller) into her constructed domestic space.

May 06, 2025
Film + TV
The Multimedia World of Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke, and Jonathan Zawada’s “Tall Tales”

Producer-composer Pritchard and artist-animator Zawada discuss their new album and its film component ahead of the latter’s one-night-only theatrical debut.

May 05, 2025
Kissing the Girl: Jill Sobule (1959-2025)

Most widely known for her 1995 singles “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel,” the songwriter and queer icon died in a house fire yesterday at the age of 66.

May 02, 2025
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