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Still stationed at the politicized meeting place of sexuality, queer iconography, feminism, and funk, there’s something sleekly hyperpop about the artist’s first album in over a decade.

With their recent protest singles, both the Boss and Bono have dispensed with poetry’s folderol of metaphor and allegory and gone straight for the jugular.

Focusing on the band’s mid-’70s run (and its outtakes), this package is among the oddest, most experimental, and most fulfilling in Beach Boys box history.

The alt-country songwriter makes the most out of their first full album and its rush of ideas that bask in a sense of independence—both from a repressive upbringing and major-label backing.

The emotional new collection from the 82-year-old composer/vocalist is full of sedative new-age sounds and smartly executed art-pop that skews toward the pastoral and elegiac.

With elaborate yet homey staging indigenous to his homeland of Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show played to the cameras and to his community.

All the firsts, lasts, celebrations, omissions, and grand statements from last night’s award ceremony.

From the stage to the screen, the Canadian actress and writer changed the face and frame of improvisational comedy.

The debut solo album from Animal Collective’s Brian Ross Weitz is an entrancing experiment with the unusual sound of hurdy-gurdy at its highly stylized center.

The producers introduce a first look at the documentary short Unknown Pop Wizard, which commemorates the legacy of the songwriter whose posthumous debut album 65th & York arrived back in October.

The king of the French touch sound talks Kiss the Beast, his frantic new album that counters the domesticated portrait he painted on his previous release.

Flush with a historic list of Black voices both past and present, the producer’s debut album sees him devise yet another way to remake the wheel of soul.

This remastering of the late Suicide frontman’s wired-weirdly rockabilly debut is bolstered by demos and scratch tracks that offer a rare glimpse into the artistic process.

The Nottingham duo rage-rave on with their aggressive brand of electronic post-punk on their apocalyptic and uncharacteristically guest-heavy eighth album.

With the help of producer Patrick Wimberly, the Yorkshire post-punk revivalists both open wide and tighten up their taut instrumental skills and melody-making on their ninth album.

It was a quiet season for standout new holiday releases, but we uncovered 12 festive gems worth spinning.

This box set repackages the languid yet damaged follow-up to the band’s breakout success, with its true star being the massive-sounding bootleg of a 1975 live show at LA’s Sports Arena.

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.