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Film + TV
Anger Is Only Making Scott Thompson—and Buddy Cole—Stronger

The member of the terminally cheerful Kids in the Hall comedy troupe talks venting his frustrations with Amazon’s censorship of the series’ revival with a new solo comedy show.

January 29, 2024
Reviews
Colin Newman, “Bastard” [Reissue]

The Wire frontman’s 1997 turn toward drum ’n’ bass, techno, house, and industrial music is guided by the goal of atmospheric mood-shifting and a love story just beginning to build.

January 24, 2024
Reviews
Kid Cudi, “Insano”

Balancing his Entergalactic OST’s wobbly clouds of synth with the banger hooks he’s known for, Cudi’s lengthy ninth LP has too many guests sounding as if they’re squeezing to get in.

January 12, 2024
Reviews
Lou Reed, “Hudson River Wind Meditations” [Reissue]

The second installment in Light in the Attic’s archive series on Reed spotlights his devotional ambient-drone LP—the pensive yin to its infamous successor’s metallic yang.

January 10, 2024
Staff Picks
The Best Reissues of 2023

Our roundup of the anniversary releases, box sets, and other collections that stood out last year.

January 08, 2024
Reviews
Conway the Machine & Wun Two, “Palermo”

The debut collaboration between the Buffalo emcee and the German trap producer is a darkly clouded, overstuffed release that eats like a huge holiday meal after a maudlin family funeral.

December 20, 2023
Reviews
Omar Rodríguez-López, “Amor de Frances”

In collecting 57 solo and duo efforts into one (not really) cohesive whole, a multi-hued portrait of the Mars Volta/At the Drive-In cofounder as an enigmatic genius emerges.

December 19, 2023
Reviews
Various Artists, “The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull”

With contributions from Iggy Pop, Cat Power, Lydia Lunch, Peaches, Shirley Manson, and more, the covers collection aims to benefit its subject as she recovers from long COVID.

December 18, 2023
Reviews
Various Artists, “Moping in Style: A Tribute to Adam Green”

With friends of the Moldy Peaches co-founder reverently recreating his solo hits, this new compilation occasionally makes us more interested in what some of his peers have been up to.

December 13, 2023
Reviews
Peter Gabriel, “i/o”

The broadly poetic tales of ordinary madness on the Genesis co-founder’s first LP of new original material in over two decades are often spare and daringly melodic.

December 04, 2023
Shane MacGowan: An Appreciation

Remembering the Pogues frontman upon his passing at the age of 65.

December 01, 2023
Art & Culture
Tony Oursler’s Restless Brand of Multimedia Art Goes Further and Farther Out

The multimedia installation artist discusses his work for the new group show Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art taking place at Florida’s Boca Raton Museum of Art through May 12.

November 30, 2023
Reviews
Bob Dylan, “The Complete Budokan 1978”

With a crisper mix and an expanded tracklist, these live recordings that were once overwrought and overly complex become more bearable—and occasionally effortlessly beautiful.

November 27, 2023
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2023: Joni Mitchell, Nas, The Flaming Lips, and More

Q4’s moody sister to the annual April celebration of all-things-physical-music-media arrives on November 24.

November 22, 2023
Art & CultureIn Conversation
Shigeto Koyama’s Great American Adventure

The anime giant discusses his new exhibit at NYC’s NowHere where he shares the design work for which he’s renowned and other, more personal and experimental projects.

November 20, 2023
Reviews
Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express, “Complete Oblivion”

Packaging together the first six LPs released by the organist-fronted ensemble, this box set reminds us that their funky take on space jazz is otherworldly—for its time, as well as for the present day.

November 20, 2023
Reviews
Bryan Ferry, “Mamouna” [2023 Deluxe Reissue]

The highlight of this re-release is the inclusion of the former Roxy Music vocalist’s sleekly tasteful lost album Horoscope and a collection of raw, rare session sketches.

November 17, 2023
Reviews
Sen Morimoto, “Diagnosis”

On his third album, the jazz-pop songwriter slows his lush, quirky sonic environment’s roll as he expands his lyrical focus to paint a more complex portrait of his social identity.

November 09, 2023

Devo photosessions in Acron Ohio 1976

Devo’s Duty Now (and Then) for the Future

Mark Mothersbaugh gives us an oral history of his iconic new wave band, from their early-’70s origins on Kent State’s campus to their ongoing tour and various physical career retrospectives spanning vinyl box sets and documentaries landing 50 years later.

November 08, 2023
Reviews
Kevin Abstract, “Blanket”

The lyrical vision and subtly memorable melodies on the Brockhampton founder’s latest solo LP feel more organic than those of his guitar-strewn hip-hop predecessors.

November 06, 2023
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