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Gang Gang Dance, “Kazuashita”

Once personifying the adventurous, fresh feel of Brooklyn’s 21st century rise, GGD’s latest takes into account the jadedness of the moment.

June 28, 2018
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The Carters, “Everything Is Love”

A charming denouement dedicated to entrepreneurial spirit and nuptial love.

June 26, 2018
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Father John Misty, “God’s Favorite Customer”

Josh Tillman seems to have turned the other cheek, focusing on the insular, singular self on his opulent but folksy new album.

June 04, 2018
Art & CultureFilm + TV
Crossing Through the Fire with Sean Penn

The two-time Oscar-winner chats about leaving Hollywood, entering the writing industry, and his debut novel, “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.”

May 23, 2018
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Leon Bridges, “Good Thing”

Leon Bridges is an actor in a costume, but one with a sweet-and-salty voice and all the right moves to go with the richly theatrical presentation.

May 15, 2018
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Dr. Dog, “Critical Equation”

The live sound of the album, when combined with its subtler-than-usual hooks, is a nifty combination.

May 03, 2018
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Snoop Dogg, “Bible of Love”

If you love Snoop’s slippery honey-and-rubber flow and sing-song patois, you’re in luck: holy rolling hasn’t slowed him.

March 22, 2018
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David Byrne, “American Utopia”

So nothing has changed and everything has changed, and that’s how David Byrne is best served.

March 20, 2018
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, “Wrong Creatures”

“Wrong Creatures” doesn’t have the fixation of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s best moments, yet it doesn’t come across as blurrily unmoored either.

January 18, 2018
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Thelonious Monk, “The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection”

The handsomely-curated vinyl box set revisits the early albums that set the tone for Monk’s mad aesthetic.

December 21, 2017
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Hüsker Dü, “Savage Young Dü”

The reissue tells a story of teens from Saint Paul, Minnesota, finding themselves and their searing, rock-out identities.

November 06, 2017
Film + TV
Congratulations Tim and Eric on Your Ten-Year Anniversary, Great Job!

Back before Weird Internet was truly a thing, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim were practically swimming in it. Ten years after they changed comedy, we look back on the making and legacy of “Awesome Show, Great Job!”

November 01, 2017
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Cornelius, “Mellow Waves”

Twenty years have passed since Cornelius’s sugary cut-collage classic “Fantasma,” and the Japanese electronic sound sculptor known for excursions in Shibuya-Kei has grown in ways unimaginable from that elastic landmark.

July 31, 2017

Hans Zimmer, Los Angeles, LA, Tour, Concert, Performance, April 14 2017, EVI

Film + TV
In Conversation: Hans Zimmer Wasn’t Made for Pop Music

One of the planet’s most experimental film composers gets out from behind the boards for Dunkirk, a live tour, and more.

July 27, 2017
In Conversation
In Conversation: Ice Cube Is Still Steady Mobbin’

Twenty-five years after he released one of the most controversial records in hip-hop history, the LA rapper-turned–family man has regrets—but not many.

July 14, 2017
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Phoenix, “Ti Amo”

Though short and sweet, “Ti Amo” hides something frank, hard, and troubled beneath its lustful sheen and rainbow hues.

June 15, 2017
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Black Lips, “Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art?”

There’s buoyancy and shockingly tight musicianship to Black Lips’ prattling-on proceedings here that you won’t often find elsewhere in the garage band’s catalog.

May 16, 2017

‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ starring Jonah Ray, Patton Oswalt, Felicia Day, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Mary Jo Pehl, Hampton Yount, Baron Vaughn, Rebecca Hanson, Tim Blaney, Elliot Kalan. Directed by Joel Hodgson & Rob Cohen. Photo by Darren Michaels, SMPSP

Film + TV
Three Millennia and Counting: The Return of “Mystery Science Theater 3000”

It’s no mystery. It’s not rocket science. It only looks like it.

May 03, 2017
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The Flaming Lips, “Oczy Mlody”

The oddball, acid-laced soliloquies that characterized Coyne’s Mad Hatter aesthetic from the start are still part-and-parcel of what drives his merry-to-morose ensemble.

January 09, 2017
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Bruno Mars, “24K Magic”

The “Uptown Funk” star can be both trite and torrid when it comes to plastic, flossy funk.

November 28, 2016
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