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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Before touring the Muses’ new album Moonlight Concessions across the UK and Europe this summer, Hersh discusses the anatomy of a song and working within each of her bands’ unique color palettes.

With the Cleveland art-punk icon passing away this week at the age of 71, we look back on some of his band’s greatest moments captured on video.

The deep crevices of profound dependence live within the Melbourne-based songwriter’s every word and melody throughout her grayly comic and experimentally recorded ninth album.

Biographer David Sheff and documentarian Kevin Macdonald discuss working to set their mutual subject free from the misogyny and misinformation of her Beatles-damning past.

Documenting his 2023 tour, Young’s umpteenth live album both simplifies the noise of Crazy Horse’s recent recordings and solidly renders familiar hits in a solo setting.

The third and final installment of his vintage psych-soul trilogy sees the songwriter bring the large history of Brazil into a tight narrative revolving around young love and class struggle.