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Tits Out, Up, and Onward: Finally Independent, Kesha Speaks Her Piece

On the heels of her first album since settling her nearly decade-long lawsuit, the artist discusses her journey of self-reclamation and her dedication to ensuring that the next generation of pop stars don’t face the same predation.

August 29, 2025
Reviews
Sabrina Carpenter, “Man’s Best Friend”

The pop star embraces the risqué and ribald double (or triple) entendre on her latest record while sticking to the success-filled formula of last summer’s breakout LP.

August 29, 2025
Reviews
Blood Orange, “Essex Honey”

Dev Hynes’ guest-filled yet distinctly lonely first album in seven years takes his usual complex arrangements, epic electronica, and intricate melody-making and pushes them into the red.

August 28, 2025
Reviews
Margo Price, “Hard Headed Woman”

For every tender moment on the country artist’s fifth album there’s one of wind-blow abandon, a yin and yang that complements her split allegiance to the genre’s rich history and the present day.

August 27, 2025
Film + TVFilm Review
The New Devo Documentary Is an Expectedly Eccentric Tug at the Heartstrings

Chris Smith’s film about the new wave icons possesses a sentimentality largely missing from the band’s 50-year career.

August 22, 2025
Alison Goldfrapp’s Ever-Circling Continuum and the Flux Within

The electronic songwriter discusses her second solo LP, going independent, and the influence of her anomalous body of work on younger generations of pop stars.

August 22, 2025
Reviews
Deftones, “private music”

Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.

August 21, 2025
Reviews
Mac DeMarco, “Guitar”

The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

August 20, 2025
Reviews
Rich Brian, “Where Is My Head?”

The edgy but earnest Indonesian-American rapper further leans into his identity on his first album in six years, welcoming a variety of guests on his trek through self-actualization.

August 15, 2025
Film + TVFilm Review
“AngelHeaded Hipster”: Banging a Gong for T. Rex, Marc Bolan, and Hal Willner

Ethan Silverman’s new documentary celebrates the glam-rock icon and the ever-growing legacy he left behind.

August 08, 2025
Reviews
Marianne Faithfull, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The Complete UK Decca Recordings”

Reissued for the first time in this six-CD box set are the British singer’s original Decca albums, along with a double LP of singles, B-sides, and rarities from the era.

August 06, 2025
Reviews
Reneé Rapp, “Bite Me”

The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

August 05, 2025
Reviews
$uicideboy$, “Thy Kingdom Come”

On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

August 04, 2025
Reviews
Madonna, “Veronica Electronica”

A companion to her 1998 downtempo LP Ray of Light, this collection is a series of fresh, future-forward edits, remixes, and demo tracks meant to expand the vision of the original album.

July 30, 2025
Reviews
Nick Drake, “The Making of Five Leaves Left”

Meant to tell a deeper story behind the songwriter’s 1969 debut, each demo, outtake, and alternate version on this 4-LP set radiates the piecemeal feel of a novice grasping his way through a new endeavor.

July 28, 2025
Reviews
Talking Heads, “More Songs About Buildings and Food” [Super Deluxe Edition]

The band’s first album with Brian Eno is a portrait of two ecosystems learning each other’s ways, with this box set’s exclusive rarities further revealing the collaboration’s inner workings.

July 24, 2025
Reviews
Heatmiser, “Mic City Sons” [30th Anniversary Edition]

Extended to a two-album set, this anniversary remastering of Elliott Smith and Neil Gust’s post-hardcore band’s third and final statement features unreleased songs and demos.

July 23, 2025
Reviews
Sly & the Family Stone, “The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967”

This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

July 21, 2025
Reviews
Nilüfer Yanya, “Dancing Shoes”

A follow-up to last fall’s full-length, this four-song EP sees the London-based songwriter strengthening her case for pop-chart status while continuing to prove that that’s not her goal.

July 14, 2025
Zak Starkey Is Still Processing His Busy Month

The drummer and Mantra of the Cosmos co-founder riffs about recent collaborators Noel Gallagher, Sean Lennon, and James McCartney, his standing with The Who, and more.

July 11, 2025
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