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The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Before touring the Muses’ new album Moonlight Concessions across the UK and Europe this summer, Hersh discusses the anatomy of a song and working within each of her bands’ unique color palettes.

With the Cleveland art-punk icon passing away this week at the age of 71, we look back on some of his band’s greatest moments captured on video.

The deep crevices of profound dependence live within the Melbourne-based songwriter’s every word and melody throughout her grayly comic and experimentally recorded ninth album.

Biographer David Sheff and documentarian Kevin Macdonald discuss working to set their mutual subject free from the misogyny and misinformation of her Beatles-damning past.

Documenting his 2023 tour, Young’s umpteenth live album both simplifies the noise of Crazy Horse’s recent recordings and solidly renders familiar hits in a solo setting.

The third and final installment of his vintage psych-soul trilogy sees the songwriter bring the large history of Brazil into a tight narrative revolving around young love and class struggle.

The teen songwriter’s posthumous debut is as goofy, sinister, and sing-song-y as you might expect from someone who worked closely with Wayne Coyne at an impressionable age.

On her third LP, the Berlin-via-UK songwriter rediscovers her roots as a lyricist and as a vocalist within the roomy ambience that the finest moments of the record provide.

With the help of guest vocalists including Robyn, Fever Ray, and Alison Goldfrapp, these clubby studio versions of the Norwegian duo’s recent live set push them further into the flame.

From multi-album boxes from Sun Ra, Prince, and Warren Zevon to live Gracie Abrams vinyl and RSD 2025 Ambassador Post Malone doing Nirvana—here’s the best of this spring’s crop.

This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.

Revisiting their mean, lean follow-up to their ill-fated AOI trilogy, this anniversary package features winning never-before-heard oddities and bone-stripped instrumentals for the DJ elite.

Cleaned up with a new Dolby Atmos mix, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider’s first foray into pure electronics is still recondite and abstruse (and louder) without sounding superficial.

The German music innovator discusses his journey from playing in the original iteration of Kraftwerk to bringing live sounds to Los Angeles’ Intuition Festival this weekend at The Broad.

The Chicago-based soul artist finds the funk in digitized-disco on his third album, radiating a glow only known to those who live life on illuminated dance floors.

Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.

The pop star’s latest album is chaotic by design, blending elements from across her career to craft something you can dance to, swoon with, and don black eyeshadow for.

Written in dedication to the smoldering spirits of Verdi and Puccini and the bleak words of Byron, the songwriter’s Requiem-Mass dirge doomily portrays death’s gutting solitude.