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Ringo Starr discusses getting a little help from his friend Linda Perry on his recent Crooked Boy EP.

The alt-pop songwriter’s intricate third full-length collaboration with her brother FINNEAS explores what it means to grow up in public and find one’s voice, both literally and figuratively.

The Brooklyn-based neo-soul vocalist and composer holds onto the chunky melodic hooks of her recent output while grieving the death of her father and finding room for romance and joy.

A brief guide to the late engineering icon’s most definitive classics.

The brotherly bubblegum duo continues to channel vintage pop figures ranging from Brian Wilson to Todd Rundgren on their fifth album of exquisite harmonies and contagious melodies.

Knee deep in sweeping melancholia and clipped pop songs, the iconic synthpop duo’s latest LP is their most full-blooded effort in over a decade.

The Scary Monsters to 2021’s Young Americans–esque Daddy’s Home, Annie Clark’s seventh album is bleak and noisily unamiable yet somehow surprisingly accessible when listened to in its entirety.

Almost 30 years into their existence, the post-punk revivalists let listeners know that their youthful fire hasn’t dimmed on their fourth, most tightly wound album.

40 releases to keep your eyes peeled for as you descend upon your local record shops this Saturday.

Dabbling in odd, electronically treated acoustic instrumentation, the new-age-gone-wild sibling duo repackages material recorded in the ’80s and released last decade for a new label.

The Houston instrumental trio’s back-to-basics fourth album is a delectably nuanced and subdued listen touched up with open-air production and field recordings.

The blues-rock duo finds the perfect balance of roominess and friction on their 12th record thanks to key collaborations with Beck and producer Dan the Automator.

The composer and multi-instrumentalist discusses his work on the new historical fiction series and his background in American history, in addition to diving into a bit of Dessner family folklore.

On their fifth LP, the psych-R&B trio continue to move into the realm of Lite-Brite pixelation while maintaining a passion for the Latin continuum’s funky traditionalism and Mexicali rock and roll.

His latest mini-album sees Ishmael Butler further distance himself from conventional hip-hop as he and his collaborators explore elements of noise, glitch, shoegaze, and computer jazz.

The ever-mutable pop star’s turn toward country is a tireless, fearless epic of quirkily and wisely told Black history mixed with elements of the artist’s Texan origin story.

The newly remastered re-pressings of Nico’s solo work with John Cale make the crackling drone of these avant-folk recordings sparkle brighter than ever.

The drummer-composer’s 1960 rebirth LP remains one of the finest expressions of what it means to confront racial injustice in jazz or any other genre.

In the midst of Devo’s 50th anniversary tour, their frontman discusses his new art book documenting his eye-centric paintings and Beat-inspired stream-of-consciousness writing.

After experimenting with primal psychedelia and Prince-esque pop-funk on 2019’s This Land, the Austin blues songwriter’s fourth album is wondrously diverse in all the right places.