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Various artists, “A Tribute to Nirvana, The Songs of MTV Unplugged in New York”

Celebrating 30 years of these stark live recordings with lo-fi pop covers from the likes of Current Joys, Casino Hearts, and Brad Stank, this comp overlooks most of the release’s key tracks.

February 18, 2025
Film + TV
Joseph Patel on Sly Stone, J Dilla, and the Burden of Black Genius

The producer-director talks working with Questlove on the new Sly Lives! documentary, as well as starting production on his yet untitled directorial debut about the late J Dilla.

February 11, 2025
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Paul Robeson, “Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings”

This 14-CD collection remastering the legendary bass-baritone vocalist, stentorian actor, and civil rights advocate’s work is a crucial cultural tome of both spiritual and earthly sensuality.

February 05, 2025
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The Weeknd, “Hurry Up Tomorrow”

This hypnotic, 85-minute opus which Abel Tesfaye claims will be the final statement from his long-running moniker may be his biggest bonfire to his vanities—that is, until it flames out.

February 03, 2025
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Pink Siifu, “BLACK’!ANTIQUE”

On his sprawling fourth solo release, the rapper, producer, and post-soul provocateur—along with his coterie of collaborators—achieves something both memorably melodic and weirdly wired.

January 28, 2025
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Frank Black, “Teenager of the Year” [30th Anniversary Edition]

Bolder, weirder, and less Pixies-like than his solo debut, this vast collection of contagious pop vibes and oddball character studies remains Black Francis’ finest musical moment on his own.

January 22, 2025
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Iggy Pop, “Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023”

Recorded at the Swiss fest’s Stravinsky Hall with a seven-piece ensemble, the punk icon crams his deeply expansive catalog into one loud bomb-drop.

January 21, 2025
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Ringo Starr, “Look Up”

With the aid of producer T Bone Burnett and an exciting guest list, the Beatle finds a relaxed fit for his surprisingly modern easy-does-it C&W ballads.

January 15, 2025
Reviews
Saint Etienne, “The Night”

Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.

December 18, 2024
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The Coward Brothers, “The Coward Brothers”

Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.

December 13, 2024
Essay
War Still Got the Power

The first and still most progressive DEI rock/R&B/Latin-continuum collective continues to revive their catalog with the newly released vinyl and CD collections spanning the era from 1977 to 1994.

December 12, 2024
Reviews
Laura Nyro, “Hear My Song: The Collection, 1966-1995”

Containing 19 disks of remastered studio albums, live recordings, demos, and rarities, this full-career retrospective spotlights the urbane pop-soul legend’s bracing, challengingly romantic songcraft.

December 12, 2024
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Couch Slut, “My Life as a Woman” [10th Anniversary Remaster]

Still hard to listen to but impossible to turn away from, the NYC noise-rockers’ damning debut of feminist rage undergoes a clean-up for its tenth anniversary.

December 09, 2024
Reviews
Angel Olsen, “Cosmic Waves Volume 1”

The Asheville-based songwriter holds the door open for a handful of artists by showcasing their work and amplifying it by delivering lovely covers.

December 06, 2024
Essay
Ray Charles’ Modern Sounds

Four new reissue collections from Tangerine Records spotlight the iconic artist’s forays into C&W, R&B, and gospel—and how he blended these three genres—in the mid-1960s.

December 02, 2024
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2024

40 titles to help you overcome your post-turkey stupor this Friday, including Billie Eilish, Modest Mouse, Kacey Musgraves, U2, Rage Against the Machine, Raekwon, and more.

November 27, 2024
Reviews
Miles Davis Quintet, “Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8”

With over four hours of previously unheard music, these intense live recordings famously portray the sound of one Davis era’s end and another’s beginning.

November 22, 2024
Never Backing Down: Jayne County and Red Hot’s John Carlin Talk New Comp “TRAИƧA”

Teddy Geiger, Lyra Pramuk, and Nina Keith also weigh in on the organization’s latest expansive various-artists collection, which spotlights the trans and non-binary community.

November 21, 2024
Reviews
New Order, “Brotherhood” [Definitive Edition]

With one side dedicated to icy compu-disco and the other tied to the band’s beyond-punk origin story, this expanded reissue brings new order to the 1986 curio with live recordings, remixes, and more.

November 21, 2024
Reviews
John Cale, “Paris 1919” + “The Academy in Peril” [Reissues]

These remastered early solo releases are a testament to the breadth of the composer’s innovative sonic and lyrical éclat beyond his more menacing proto-punk work.

November 20, 2024
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