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Bryan Ferry, “Love Letters”

Roxy Music’s lounge-lizard crooner interprets a handful of classic pop songs across the decades without concern for genre or an era’s agenda.

May 20, 2022
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The Rolling Stones, “El Mocambo 1977” + “Licked Live in NYC”

These two live collections are exceptional examples of the Stones at their grungy, brassy, ballsy finest—and sharp, sad reminders of what it truly means to have lost drummer Charlie Watts.

May 19, 2022
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Norah Jones, “Come Away with Me” [20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition]

The full-bodied anniversary collection paints a wilder portrait of Jones’ debut, displaying a surprising angularity and nervous energy.

May 17, 2022
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Black Star, “No Fear of Time”

Over 20 years since their sole album together, the latest from Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli never reaches the skies of their debut, or the full flower of the talents of anyone involved.

May 16, 2022

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis photographed by Charlie Gray.

Film + TV
Andrew Dominik Profiles a Healing Nick Cave in “This Much I Know to Be True”

The New Zealand–born filmmaker’s new concert film hits theaters tomorrow.

May 10, 2022
Film + TV
Music Supervisor Gabe Hilfer on Overseeing the Funky Sounds of “Winning Time”

In the final quarter of the first season of HBO’s sporting dramedy, we look at one of its central players.

April 28, 2022
Reviews
Broadcast, “Microtronics,” “Maida Vale Sessions,” & “Mother Is the Milky Way”

These three all-rarities packages from the Birmingham sonic-collage duo create a cinematic experience from refurbished unused material.

April 25, 2022
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day 2022 Part 1: Patti Smith, Blur, David Bowie, Lou Reed, and More

25 titles to keep an eye out for at your local indie record shop this Saturday.

April 22, 2022
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Suicide, “Surrender”

Compiling and curating rarities, and putting them next to newly remastered, raw-knuckled classics, this box set takes the form of something frank and fresh rather than merely ruminative. 

April 19, 2022
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Orville Peck, “Bronco”

The “outlaw cowboy” brings to his game the opulence of a big label with an explosive, evocative production tone crossing Spaghetti Western plains and a mountain range’s open skies.

April 18, 2022
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Jack White, “Fear of the Dawn”

In contrast with his most incisive work with The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, the first of White’s two planned solo albums in 2022 feels based on the ideas of a man who’s lost without equity and union.

April 13, 2022
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Father John Misty, “Chloë and the Next 20th Century”

Josh Tillman’s latest release is a record so layered, lush, calming, and dulcet that you hardly notice its frequent aimlessness.

April 11, 2022
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The James Hunter Six, “With Love”

Hunter and his Six are unafraid of dashing their smooth soul with the good grit of the blues and a live-in-studio recording vibe.

April 07, 2022
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Frank Zappa & the Mothers, “The Mothers 1971” [Super Deluxe Edition]

This collection of previously unreleased Fillmore East showcases and bonus tracks is the wired, weird epic you didn’t know you needed.

April 05, 2022
Reviews
Sonic Youth, “In/Out/In”

This collection of instrumental-only recordings from the band’s final decade together sounds freer than anything in their avant-punk and post-no-wave past.

April 04, 2022
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Paul McCartney and Wings, “Wild Life” [50th Anniversary Edition]

The job of this freshly remodeled package is to heighten the stellar, grungy-but-clean studio mix given to the original sessions by Tony Clark and Alan Parsons.

March 15, 2022
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RZA + DJ Scratch, “Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater”

RZA pens a rapier-fast love letter to his heart’s obsession while giving Scratch space to run his jazz.

March 14, 2022
Waiting for the Sun: The Doors’ Robby Krieger on 50 Years of “L.A. Woman” and More

The Doors guitarist discusses his new autobiography, his band’s Hollywood Bowl concert film, the 50th anniversary of their last studio album with Jim Morrison, and life in “fantastic LA.”

March 07, 2022
Reviews
Robert Glasper, Black Radio III

Glasper’s most vocal excursion to date features so many voices that there’s hardly room for his bracing instrumental work.

March 07, 2022
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The Moldy Peaches, Origin Story: 1994-1999

Origin Story captures the raucous fun of two kids feeling their way through their guitars and their words while guessing at their silly talents to come.

February 28, 2022
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