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We’ve made it to New Music Friday, which means Mark William Lewis, the baritone Briton who became the first signing to A24 Music, has released the deluxe edition of last year’s self-titled album. The expanded album adds five bonus tracks, four of which are firmly in the “bonus tr
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When the distinctive Detroit emcee Bruiser Wolf and the boom-bap producer Conductor Williams team up, you know exactly what you’re going to get. New single “Ain’t Got Time” supplies it in abundance. Over an understated soul loop that feels like a smoky room, Bruiser applies his c
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Arguably this year’s biggest breakout pop star is Adéla. The Slovakian former ballerina and Dream Academy dropout is a dedicated student of the art of pop stardom, and her debut album Prima has spun off a pair of extremely fun slow-rolling hits, the soul-looped, spoken-word R&B j
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Kacey Musgraves redirected her focus to her small-town Texas roots on this year’s excellent Middle Of Nowhere. One dimension of that exercise was an embrace of Tex-Mex sounds, including a dip into the regional Mexican subgenre Norteño on the Willie Nelson duet “Uncertain, TX” and
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One of the great lost media stories of the past decade is Panchiko, a band of British teenagers playing post-Radiohead alt-rock circa Y2K, whose one CD-R, 2000’s self-released D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L, was plucked from obscurity and developed a very young, very online fanbase in the l
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Natalie Bergman from Wild Belle has been carving out a solo career in the 2020s. My Home Is Not In This World, her album for Third Man Records last year, presented an immensely pleasant blend of retro pop, soul, and folk sounds. It bodes well for I Killed A North American Songbir
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Alongside music guy John Cale and fashion guy Marc Jacobs, Martin Scorsese represented motion pictures on the cover of Charli XCX’s new album Music, Fashion, Film. (Charli herself joins in on the special edition CD cover, viewable above.) Now he’s added the pop star to the cast o
Brandon Flowers Debuts Solo Song “Diamonds On Black Velvet” That Was Cut From The Last Killers Album
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When Brandon Flowers made a country solo album in Nashville, he did it with producers Jonathan Rado and Shawn Everett, the same guys who worked on the last two Killers albums, 2020’s Imploding The Mirage and 2021’s Pressure Machine. Those records saw the Killers lean into their h
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Austin indie rockers Being Dead seem ready to follow up their breakout 2024 album EELS. The band is back today with news that they’ve signed to Polyvinyl Records, and although we don’t have any news on an LP, they’re sharing their first two songs for the label. “Man Or Myth” and
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If you liked A Jackal’s Wedding, good news: Westerman is readying a companion release. The new four-song EP Reception is sourced from the Athens, Greece-based artist’s sessions with producer Marta Salogni, but according to Westerman they differ from the main album in important wa