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The War on Drugs, “Live Drugs Again”

Adam Granduciel continues to evolve his septet’s recordings in invigorating ways, injecting a youthful enthusiasm into these live versions as well as an overheated panther’s sense of stalking.

September 17, 2024
Reviews
Laurie Anderson, “Amelia”

Embodying the perspective of Amelia Earhart, the avant-garde icon teams up with ANOHNI and the Filharmonie Brno to filter hard fact and flighty perspective into one tight audio-verité package.

September 11, 2024
Reviews
David Gilmour, “Luck and Strange”

Five albums into his solo career, the Pink Floyd guitarist broaches notions of mortality with a fresh sound more angled than we’re used to hearing from his endlessly floating solo catalog.

September 06, 2024
Reviews
Various artists, “Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia”

Despite the close proximity of countries like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the obtuse neo-disco, rhythmic post-rock, and weird jazz compiled here sound as if they existed planets apart.

August 29, 2024
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “Wild God”

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.

August 29, 2024
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Chrystabell & David Lynch, “Cellophane Memories”

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.

August 12, 2024
Reviews
Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Opus”

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.

August 09, 2024
Reviews
Jack White, “No Name”

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.

August 05, 2024
Saying Goodnight to The Chills’ Martin Phillipps

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.

July 31, 2024
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Beastie Boys, “Ill Communication” [Deluxe Edition]

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.

July 29, 2024
Art & Culture
Rob Drew on Unspooling the History, Mystery, and Romance of the Cassette Tape

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.

July 23, 2024
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Hiatus Kaiyote, “Love Heart Cheat Code”

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.

July 22, 2024
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Dr. Dog, “Dr. Dog”

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.

July 22, 2024
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John Lennon, “Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection”

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.

July 16, 2024
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Linda Thompson, “Proxy Music”

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.

July 15, 2024
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Johnny Blue Skies, “Passage du Desir”

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.

July 12, 2024
In Conversation
Photographer Kevin Cummins Has His Own Way of Looking at David Bowie

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.

July 08, 2024
Reviews
John Cale, “POPtical Illusion”

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.

June 26, 2024
The Poetry of Motion: Dirty Three on 30 Years of Love Changing Everything

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

June 26, 2024
Film + TV
A Clearer Look at the Alluringly Menacing Suburbia of “Blue Velvet”

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

June 25, 2024
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