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Groovin’: The Sound of the Soul-Jazz Organ Vibe in the Present Day Jam

On the future-looking new releases from Dr. Lonnie Smith and Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio.

April 28, 2021
Reviews
The Who, “The Who Sell Out Super Deluxe Edition”

Overstuffed and unified, this deluxe reissue has all the freneticism of its initial ideal whole.

April 20, 2021
Reviews
Vic Mensa, “I TAPE”

The EP feels more like a party with friends discussing the nation’s state of shock than it does a staid studio session.

April 19, 2021
Reviews
Laurie Anderson, “Big Science” [reissue]

Re-released on red vinyl by Nonesuch Records, this major-label debut is still a delectably odd beauty.

April 08, 2021
The Poet Speaks: Revisiting Bobby Womack’s Most Potent Albums of the ’80s

Producer Andrew Loog Oldham and documentarian Mary Wharton contextualize The Poet and The Poet II on the event of the albums’ reissue.

April 05, 2021
Art & CultureIn Conversation
In Conversation: VP Records VIP Miss Pat on Her New Autobiography

The keeper of the castle that is Jamaican music, Patricia Chin tells the story of her life’s work with “Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey.”

April 02, 2021
The Man Machine: Robert Margouleff Remembers Malcolm Cecil

Early synth designer-producer Margouleff talks about the late great producer, the 50th anniversary of Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, and helping Stevie Wonder innovate.

April 01, 2021
Reviews
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and London Symphony Orchestra, “Promises”

Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points have created a vintage vibe noir masterpiece for the 21st century.

March 29, 2021
Reviews
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, “L.W.”

“L.W.” is the fussier second half to the brutal “K.G.,” a glistening yin to its toughened yang.

March 18, 2021
Reviews
Paul Leary, “Born Stupid”

On his first solo record in 30 years, Leary reconvenes Butthole Surfers–style caustic silliness.

March 10, 2021
Reviews
Bob Dylan, “1970”

This mini-box features fluidly funky outtakes from often-neglected album sessions, together with a mystery recording with George Harrison.

March 09, 2021
In Conversation
Loss, Love, and Lust: In Conversation with Jane Birkin

The Anglo-Franco icon discusses the ghosts that fill her recent album “Oh ! Pardon tu dormais…”

March 09, 2021
Reviews
Ron Gallo, “PEACEMEAL”

Gallo’s latest is more softcore, left-field hip-hop and gentle psychedelia than his usual punk/pop vibe.

March 08, 2021
Reviews
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, “Carnage”

The pair’s latest is a theatrical, diabolically abstract, and damningly depressive work with a blinding brightness at the end of the tunnel.

March 05, 2021
Reviews
Adrian Younge, “The American Negro”

Younge’s bold new music/spoken word LP is his most stirring, politicized, and down-to-earth release to date.

February 24, 2021
Film + TV
Our Streets Are Our Office: on “Judas and the Black Messiah”

Shaka King’s new movie examines the largely untold story of BPP Chairman Fred Hampton, whose assassination was instigated by the FBI.

February 22, 2021
Art & Culture
Barbarous Nomenclature: Devendra Banhart Shows Off His Paintings in His First Solo Art Exhibition

Banhart walks us through his new exhibit “The Grief I Have Caused You,” which runs through March 20 in LA and virtually.

February 19, 2021
Reviews
Django Django, “Glowing in the Dark”

All the diversity on the oddly alluring neo-psych group’s fourth record doesn’t always make for great intrigue.

February 17, 2021
Reviews
Dusty Springfield, “The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971”

These Southern-rubbed and Philly-styled recordings open the vocalist up to a freedom she never experienced before or after.

February 16, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: Michael C. Hall and Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum Take Us on a Journey

Hall, Peter Yanowitz, and Matt Katz-Bohen on their new electronic art-rock noise record “Thanks for Coming.”

February 16, 2021
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