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Ezra Furman has announced their 10th album, Goodbye Small Head, which will be out May 16 via Bella Union. The title is lifted from Sleater-Kinney’s “Get Up” and Furman says it “reflects a band ...

Beirut (aka Zach Condon and his band) has announced a new album, A Study of Losses, recorded for a Swedish circus, and shared a new song from it, “Guericke’s Unicorn,” via a music video. A Study of ...

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In another case of a 20th anniversary causing millennial dread, of Montreal have announced a reissue of their seminal album The Sunlandic Twins. The Lonely Island Reveal the Flight of the Conchords' ...

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Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) and the Alchemist are debuting a new collaborative album titled FORENSICS. You can hear the two ...

Record playing has always been a ritualistic experience for Sting. “To take the record out of its sleeve and lovingly with two fingers, put it on the turntable, and then carefully put the stylus on ...

Kendrick Lamar, idealized as he is as the relative ascetic among his class of self-styled rap princes, is very much attracted ...

What is fascinating to hear is quite how dramatically Mullova’s concept of playing repertoire of the classical period has ...