Daft Punk's Random Access Memories Is a Lovely Sounding Retirement Record
The duo's latest gorgeously pays tribute to the sound of the past, but not its spirit.
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The duo's latest gorgeously pays tribute to the sound of the past, but not its spirit.
"The Next Day" video: another example of why pop culture needs to cut it out with the salacious-priests trope.
A Donald Glover track sans Donald Glover, plus Ghostface
Can one of today's greatest musicians top his greatest album yet?
Mountain Dew drops Lil Wayne; Reebok cuts Rick Ross. Turns out, words have a price.
Wulf Müller and Chuck Mitchell respond to questions raised about black musicians' role at the legendary, recently revamped, "race records" label.
Even if their new album is a throwaway, over the past four decades no one has fused rock's ironic swagger with metal's sludgy nihilism the way the Melvins have.
The late country singer never sounded as good, or as corny, as when with his ex-wife.
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The most popular touring musicians can afford a pay cut. Why is a conservative rocker one of the few to lower ticket prices so that fans of lesser means can attend?
Hear the soundtrack cut "Over the Love."
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Julieta Venegas and Natalia Lafourcade went retro for their latest releases—in part as a reaction against the grim headlines often seen as defining their country in the present.
OKeh Records, the jazz imprint that once made history by releasing works by pioneering African Americans, has returned—but with almost no African-American artists.
Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Voices sounds like music and then some.
The 80-year-old's latest album, Let's Just Face the Music and Dance, showcases Nelson's prodigious familiarity with the inter-mingled ancestries of country, jazz, swing, and pop.
Songs like "Blister in the Sun" and "Add It Up" don't sound like April, 1983—they sound like eternally sweaty, frustrated, neurotic teenagedom.
Track of the Day: Hova answers his political critics as only he can.
The Band Perry's 'Pioneer' fuses the worst of country and rock for a new kind of bland.
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