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Teddy Geiger, Lyra Pramuk, and Nina Keith also weigh in on the organization’s latest expansive various-artists collection, which spotlights the trans and non-binary community.

With one side dedicated to icy compu-disco and the other tied to the band’s beyond-punk origin story, this expanded reissue brings new order to the 1986 curio with live recordings, remixes, and more.

These remastered early solo releases are a testament to the breadth of the composer’s innovative sonic and lyrical éclat beyond his more menacing proto-punk work.

The new reissue expands on the lyrical desolation, moody arrangements, and incendiary sonic vibes fueled by post-9/11 Brooklyn that define this debut.

The Irish art-pop icon and former Virgin Prunes bandleader talks God, dogs, and his new album, Ecce Homo.

The Puerto Rican vocalist and producer sounds primed for something romantically and rhythmically new yet soulfully nostalgic and warm on his latest collection of Latin pop.

Co-produced by his son Dhani with a deeply fluid overall bass line, this 50th anniversary collection provides the Beatle’s second solo record plenty more room to breathe.

This five-LP set spotlights how singular the slacker-rockers were as songwriters and offbeat vocal harmonists while putting their out-of-print catalog back into the world where it belongs.

Featuring a remastered sound and plenty of outtakes, demos, and live versions, this celebration of the iconic new wave band’s debut is equally notable for its flip-top box design and 80-page hardcover book.

Although curiously brief, this single-disc retrospective of the late songwriter and producer’s solo work is a solid overview of his innovation within a diverse set of sounds.

This anniversary collection filled with demos, practice bits, and live sessions demonstrates how full-blooded the band sounded even before stepping into the studio with Ric Ocasek.

This five-song EP offers a sense of where Steven Ellison’s futuristic agenda lies in 2024: between the breezy fusion-funk of the 1970s and the discoid, bouncy house music of the ’80s.

Whether tenderly crooned or roughly rapped, whether stoically alone or with a crew of features, the songs on the rapper’s eighth LP find him calling into question his past, present, and future.

The lyrical doom and gloom that matches the music’s slowed, metallic, ethereal ambience on the band’s first record in 16 years focuses very pointedly on true death.

Far from isolating Ferry from Roxy Music, this 50-year retrospective examines collaboration as the throughline between his elegant early material and his latter-day paeans to loneliness.

The illustrator explores the ketamine researcher’s “peculiar and distressing” fantasies in his latest psychedelic graphic novel, out now via Anthology Editions.

The indie-folk vets take maximalist swings on their eleventh record, with their swelling, sophisticated soundscapes often feeling muted by Conor Oberst’s sullen lyrics.

Sophie Allison’s fourth album digs deeper both poetically and personally as her dozy, conversational vocals and pop-grunge arrangements reach their clearest form.

Composed of the avant-garde songwriter’s first four solo records along with live recordings and other oddities, this collection is a wealth of weird ranging from pastoral freak-folk to circus noise.

The threadbare arrangements and starkly poetic sense of woe and wonder found on Justin Vernon’s new EP fit his back catalog like a wooly, moth-eaten sweater.