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FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day 2023: David Byrne, Stevie Nicks, Blur, Arooj Aftab, and More

34 titles to keep an eye out for at the first post-pandemic slam dance.

April 21, 2023
In Conversation
Rodrigo Amarante’s Fantastic LA

Ahead of his performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend, the Brazilian-born musician talks returning to his longtime home of Los Angeles.

April 20, 2023
Reviews
David Bowie, “Aladdin Sane” [50th Anniversary Half Speed Master]

Already clarion-clearly produced for (mostly) ship-in-a-bottle precision, the 2023 reissue’s sound is bracing nearly to a fault, with what was rushed in its original release subtly made right.

April 11, 2023
Reviews
Thomas Bangalter, “Mythologies”

The Daft Punk member’s orchestral debut saws and soars its way into a nearly nirvana-like state.

April 06, 2023
Reviews
A Certain Ratio, “1982”

On their latest full-length, the Manchester funk-punk group reinvent their skeletal dance-floor groove to concoct something sunshiny and frisky without denying their aggro past.

April 04, 2023
Reviews
Van Der Graaf Generator, “The Bath Forum”

This four-album set collects some of the most ferocious career-spanning moments from the art-prog act recorded at a live session in London.

April 03, 2023
Reviews
Pink Floyd, “The Dark Side of the Moon” + “Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974”

The now-50-year-old iconic LP—and its rarely heard Wembley live show recording—represents progressive rock at its most endearing, embraceable, and enduring.

March 29, 2023
Reviews
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown, “Scaring the Hoes”

The radically caffeinated and overheated emcees’ new duet album achieves a cohesion that could only be described as alchemical magic.

March 28, 2023
Reviews
Lana Del Rey, “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd”

Shame, sex, death, and family all wriggle through Del Rey’s new album as if pouring mercury through a sieve, with Jack Antonoff’s light orchestration designed to make it all go down easy.

March 27, 2023
Film + TV
“The Upsetter” Is a Full-Circle Portrait of Lee “Scratch” Perry

Adam Bhala Lough and Ethan Higbee’s 2009 documentary on the producer and toaster is now streaming on Criterion Channel, and available physically through Factory 25 and Vinegar Syndrome.

March 22, 2023
Reviews
Depeche Mode, “Memento Mori”

The sonic sparseness of the band’s fifteenth album—and first since the passing of co-founder Andrew Fletcher—is a welcome retreat from their more conventional forays into universality over the past decade.

March 22, 2023
Reviews
U2, “Songs of Surrender”

This massive collection of re-recorded hits offers genuine surprises as to how the band sees themselves and their material, making for their best new old album in some time.

March 17, 2023
Film + TVIn Conversation
Music Supervisor Frankie Pine on Making “Daisy Jones & the Six” Rock

Pine talks transforming the fictional group into a real band of sorts, and choosing aptly emotional ’70s-centric needle drops for the series’ Fleetwood Mac–ish drama.

March 17, 2023
Reviews
De La Soul, “3 Feet High and Rising”

The Long Island–based trio’s Möbius-stripped voices in tandem with Prince Paul’s seamless sampling are what make their 1989 debut one of hip-hop’s foremost GOAT contenders.

March 13, 2023
Reviews
Miley Cyrus, “Endless Summer Vacation”

Dedicated to her gauzy Los Angeles’s sunny days and noir-ish nights, Miley’s eighth LP is her most consistent, evenly handed record to date.

March 10, 2023
Reviews
Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello, “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello”

In addition to live recordings and rarities, this two-vinyl, four-CD package features a remastered version of the pair’s 1998 collaboration Painted by Memory that will break your heart with each spin.

March 06, 2023
First Listen
Money Mark Turns Imaad Wasif’s “So Long Mr. Fear” on Its Head with New Remix

Retitled “Mr. Fear, So Long,” the collaborative rework reanimates the single with “alien funk.”

March 06, 2023
In Conversation
A Tale of Ten City: Marshall Jefferson and Byron Stingily on the Past and Present of “Love Is Love”

The iconic Chicago house duo discuss their trajectory from their early major-label releases in the late-’80s to the two records they’ve crafted since reforming in 2021.

March 03, 2023
Reviews
John Fizer, “Treasure Man”

The Berkeley troubadour’s once-lost 1977 solo disc is full of weary songs both beautifully plainspoken and warmly character-driven.

February 27, 2023
Reviews
Gorillaz, “Cracker Island”

Damon Albarn dampens some of the project’s kinkier oddities in favor of symmetry and sleekness on his latest star-studded recording.

February 24, 2023
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