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The Bad Seeds are freely guided by melody rather than chaos on their 18th album, while their frontman makes something truly joyful from some life experiences that are truly soul-crushing.

The duo’s latest LP is a test of their previously rendered strengths, where the singer’s multi-layered vocal collages become a sliver of sound within Lynch’s off-putting yet unusually beautiful music.

This posthumous release provides a vivid and provocative parting glance at the composer’s expansive body of work—it’s the most alive that any recorded version of Sakamoto has ever sounded.

The grime-encrusted glory of White’s new collection of self-produced garage blues provides an immediate joy that was noticeably missing on both records he released in 2022.

Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan helps us celebrate the life of the New Zealand jangle-pop songwriter, who passed away this week at the age of 61.

This 30th anniversary reissue re-shuffles the deck on the Beasties’ fourth album with a boxset featuring live oddities, remixes, and an overall bigger sound than the original recording.

The author of Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable discusses how the ease and affordability of cassettes once democratized the recording and sharing of music.

The psych-soul quartet eschews improvisation for something more focused and melodic, which proves easier on the ears yet often incompatible with their prior clamorous catalog.

The Philadelphian indie-folk troupe’s 12th album sounds like a greatest-hits package, their shiny and remastered best for the goal of optimum woodsy psychedelic crispness.

Everything held within this fabulously gluttonous 30-pound cube is designed to physically portray just what was going on inside the Lennon/Ono brain trust in NYC circa summer 1973.

After losing her singing voice, the folk-rock icon pushes her incendiary brand of writing to new heights and humors on her first record in 11 years, abetted by nearly a dozen guest vocalists.

Under a new moniker, Sturgill Simpson offers up eight cosmic country songs with a new and deeper reverence for space-cowboy blues that don’t stray far from the Sturgill we’ve always loved.

From legendary gigs in the early ’70s to studio sessions in the ’90s, Cummins’ new photography book David Bowie: Mixing Memory & Desire captures many phases of the icon’s storied career.

Following last year’s collab-heavy solo effort, the Velvet Underground co-founder’s latest is a more personal and approachable statement stuffed with vintage violence and minimalist fury.

Warren Ellis, Mick Turner, and Jim White discuss their first new collaborative album in 12 years, out now via Drag City.

David Lynch’s quietly disturbing modern-noir masterpiece is now available in director-approved 4K UHD, courtesy of Criterion Collection.

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.

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.

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.

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.