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Playboi Carti Adds More Songs to ‘Music’ on ‘Sorry 4 Da Wait’ Deluxe Edition
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Lucy Dacus Delivers Her Most Intimate Dramas Yet
Selana Gomez and Benny Blanco’s Adorable Valentine Album
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My Morning Jacket’s Down-to-Earth Reboot
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“I’m thinking about breaking your heart someday soon,” Lucy Dacus confesses in “Limerance,” one of the highlights from her fourth album Forever Is a...
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Here’s a toast to the happy couple. For Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, turning their love story into an album is the least they...
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Pictoria Vark is the spoonerism alias of the young singer-songwriter Victoria Park, who turned heads with her 2022 debut album The Parts I Dread....
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The four additional tracks are loose singles Carti shared over the past few years, but never received a full streaming release In case 30...
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Music lovers, rejoice: Playboi Carti‘s 30-track opus is officially a hit. The new set bows atop the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, moving...
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The colors of Mogwai‘s volcanic explosions on the cover of The Bad Fire, the gloomy Glaswegians’ 11th record (by their count), are bright red,...
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In the mid-2010s, it was Skepta and Stormzy who seemed poised to carry British rap across the Atlantic as the sound of U.K. grime...
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Pop quiz: Who had the Number One song of 2024? You’d be forgiven if you didn’t guess that it was the big-voiced yet tender-hearted...
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What exactly is the feeling of losing yourself on the dance floor? So often, it’s tied up in jubilation, in sweat, in communion with...
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The year is 2014. Mac Miller has defied hip-hop norms as a successful, independent act who’s sound has impressively evolved from easy-going frat-rap to...
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With her seventh album as the Weather Station, singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman gets dangerously close to making the 2020s version of Joni Mitchell’s Court and...
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“We all do things that we wish we hadn’t done,” Alex Kapranos purrs at the end of the new Franz Ferdinand album, but it...
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Ringo always wanted to be a cowboy. He grew up in the toughest corner of Liverpool, dreaming of escaping to the Wild West, hoping...
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Explosive U.K. duo debuts with the excellent Who Let the Dogs Out On the engagingly titled “Cuntology 101,” the U.K. duo Lambrini Girls offer...
