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Various Artists, “Noise for Now Vol. 2”

This installment of the org’s benefit series builds upon its predecessor’s variety, starpower, and vitality with original recordings and other curiosities from David Byrne & Devo, Courtney Barnett, Faye Webster, and more.

June 25, 2024
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Joni Mitchell, “The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)”

The liberated blues of Hejira and the melodic complexities of Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter and Mingus found the songwriting icon more footloose than ever.

June 21, 2024
Art & CultureIn Conversation
Nona Hendryx on Achieving Her Lifelong Dream of Becoming a Cyborg with “The Dream Machine Experience”

Running through the rest of the month at NYC’s Lincoln Center, the multimedia artist discusses how the project reflects a lifetime of Afrofuturist ideas.

June 20, 2024
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Brian Eno, Holger Czukay, and J. Peter Schwalm, “Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen.”

The collaborators’ ambient soundscape created on the spot in 1998 in Bonn, Germany sounds like a jungle-meets-musique-concrète take on Eno’s 1981 collaboration with David Byrne.

June 18, 2024
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Normani, “Dopamine”

The long-awaited debut from the Fifth Harmony alum is a sleekly chic R&B album that sticks to a one-mood-fits-all soundtrack of listless soul rather than attempting innovation.

June 17, 2024
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Man Man, “Carrot on Strings”

Honus Honus’ seventh album maintains the project’s mad experimental dips and tipsy lyricism while venturing into unexpectedly pretty new territory.

June 10, 2024
From the Outside: Power of Attorney’s Ron Aikens

50 years after singing on the sole release from the first-ever prison band studio recording, the songwriter talks beginning a new chapter with the help of Brewerytown Records’s Max Ochester.

June 04, 2024
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Alan Vega, “Insurrection”

The third collection of posthumous recordings since his passing in 2016 finds the Suicide bandleader balanced between shocking melancholy and a sense of optimism.

May 30, 2024
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Bat for Lashes, “The Dream of Delphi”

Natasha Khan’s sixth studio album is quieter and sparer than its predecessors as motherhood lends her crowded lyrics and arrangements a new sense of loving poignancy.

May 29, 2024
Film + TV
Allan Arkush on Roger Corman and the Pop Art Rebellion of “Rock ’n’ Roll High School”

The 1979 musical comedy’s director connects the dots between the late cult film figure and modernism with the Ramones in tow.

May 23, 2024
The Ballad of Ringo and Linda

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

May 21, 2024
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Billie Eilish, “Hit Me Hard and Soft”

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.

May 17, 2024
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Yaya Bey, “Ten Fold”

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.

May 13, 2024
How Steve Albini Changed the Course of Music History in 15 Albums

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

May 09, 2024
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The Lemon Twigs, “A Dream Is All We Know”

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.

May 01, 2024
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Pet Shop Boys, “Nonetheless”

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.

April 30, 2024
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St. Vincent, “All Born Screaming”

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.

April 29, 2024
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The Libertines, “All Quiet on The Eastern Esplanade”

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.

April 22, 2024
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day April 2024: Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Uzi Vert, Talking Heads, and More

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

April 18, 2024
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Woo, “Robot X” + “Xylophonics” [Reissues]

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.

April 16, 2024
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