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Everything Josh Shaw does is immediate, off, and odd—like a welcome meeting of Violent Femmes, Kid Cudi, The Cure, and Tom Verlaine.

The debut album from the outsider-rap cowboy is a bold, verbal, and vocal display of what it must mean to be lonely at the top.

This 5-year case study sees the doctor reviving the patient, taking out the bile, and giving him new legs with more tactile treading.

Andrew discusses microdosing, letting go, and his project’s full-circle return to collaboration on his tenth album.

This workman-like all-CD box signals what might be this period’s finest and most uniquely artful one-two punch.

The original Stillwater songs—penned by Cameron Crowe with Peter Frampton and Heart’s Nancy Wilson—are better here, at home, than they were in the theater back in 2000.

It’s in its marriage to the film that this soundtrack is best served; cold and bleakly comical with an operatic repetitiveness worthy of Philip Glass.

The co-star of “Stranger Things” and the new Ryan Reynolds arcade-adventure “Free Guy” talks psychedelia, porn staches, and body-painted costumes.

The composer shows off a mind for menacing, tactile music which meshes the oceanic-winded scale of the elements.

This 50th anniversary reissue adds an oomph that’s crucial to its rhythm arrangements and the tremor of Harrison’s treble-heavy guitar work.

The unearthed 2010 LP is more fun than inventive, and a whole lot of very-OK, faux-sexy, R&B rawkouts.

Martinez discusses doing his own thing on his solo debut as Bardo, “Everywhere Reminds Me of Space.”

Sly & Robbie’s Sly Dunbar and production duo Zak & Sshh talk U-Roy’s legacy and the innovative vocalist’s new posthumous LP “Solid Gold.”

Amarante’s second solo album is the work of a vexingly imaginative, subtly unpredictable, and ruminatively humorous composer.

The composer pulls from prayerful moments with voice and Wurlitzer electric organ to awe-inspiring results.

23 new releases we’re excited for during RSD Drop 2 on July 17.

The new box set celebrates Brown’s exploration of rough-hewn art rock with a twist alongside his crew Kingdom Come.

Red Hot beats as it hasn’t in quite some time, pushing its participants further than you may have imagined.

Artists, tape manufacturers, and distributors weigh in on major-label involvement in the latest trend in physical music media.

Gang of Four finally get their tribute thanks to Tom Morello and friends with “The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four.”