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Packed with era-appropriate B-sides, this release celebrates the Britpop quartet in their last gasp of opulent orchestration as they moved into lonely disillusionment and reserved distance.

The live album tied to the new-wave icons’ new concert film shows how a lifelong band persists through loss while maturing their dusky music and a deep connection to their audience.

Aid your post-turkey digestion this Friday with fresh rarities from Billie Eilish, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Bad Brains, Talking Heads, Robbie Robertson, Curtis Mayfield, Dr. Dre, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Warren Zevon, and more.

Besides its crystal-clear sound, the draw for this expanded singles collection is its curios such as the 22-minute “America” and Prince’s serpentine contribution to the We Are the World album.

This reissue of the art-rockers’ 1980 debut may not come with the sandpaper sleeve it had upon its initial release, yet that doesn’t make its haunting, all-instrumental music any less abrasive.

This reissue of the band’s final grand theatrical concept with Peter Gabriel as their frontman is given a bolder, brighter, shocking edginess in its remixed remastering.

The reggae icon who put the Jamaican-born-and-branded music on the map internationally with his soundtrack to 1972’s The Harder They Come has passed away at the age of 81.

The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.

This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.

Benefitting the Ally Coalition, this collection features original material from the fest’s diversified wealth of artists—though it’s oddly devoid of any actual in-concert recordings.

Packaging a set from their Minnesota hometown with reams of added live tracks from that same championship season, this collection sees the trio’s past and present melt into one new reality of stinging melodicism.

Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.

Recorded on the 10th anniversary of their debut, the trio forgoes reliving past glories in favor of quietly ruminating on what’s gone on between these two points, detonating everything in sight.

This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.

The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.

With the oft-rumored electric version of Bruce’s unhappiest album as its centerpiece, this five-disc collection helps to inform the maudlin medicine that fills the songwriter’s new biopic.

Evan Dando finds a middle ground between nostalgia and the present with his grunge-pop outfit’s latest LP, which isn’t any less messily melancholic than the project’s early-’90s peak.

The artist who all but invented “neo-soul” passed away today at the age of 51.

The film’s creator looks back on five decades of the cult classic as it’s further immortalized with a new Ultra HD Blu-ray release and a book of Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes production photos.

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, this nine-CD, three-Blu-ray set ties together his parents’ raw, grimy Some Time in New York City LP with a pair of shows at Madison Square Garden.