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featured new releases
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- José James
- No Beginning No End
- On his Blue Note debut, José James magnificently blurs genre boundaries between pop, R&B, and jazz, and creates sophisticated music of his own.
- Toro y Moi
- Anything in Return
- Toro y Moi's third full album is a sleek, late-night Chill&B album that's perfectly arranged and rewards multiple listens.
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- Aaron Neville
- My True Story
- The great New Orleans vocalist does his own unique take on doo wop with help from co-producers Keith Richards, Don Was, and an all-star band.
- Ex Cops
- True Hallucinations
- The N.Y.C. band borrows from many cool sources (from the Velvet Underground to Factory Records) to make its dreamily sweet indie pop.
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- Ra Ra Riot
- Beta Love
- The orchestral pop-inflected outfit expands their sonic palette on this synthesizer-heavy album inspired by futurists Ray Kurzweil and William Gibson.
- Esben and the Witch
- Wash the Sins Not Only…
- Sleek and spectral, Esben and the Witch's second album finds the trio at the peak of its powers.
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- The Joy Formidable
- Wolf's Law
- The Welsh trio's second outing sounds like a storm making its way to land, pausing occasionally to pick up steam amidst the ruin.
- Camper Van Beethoven
- La Costa Perdida
- Willfully homespun, rough around the edges, and crackly as a campfire full of pine branches, roaches, junk mail, and empty tall boys.
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- Alasdair Roberts
- A Wonder Working Stone
- This wise and wordy self-penned set from the Glasgow-based scholar of traditional Scottish music is masterfully arranged.
- The Lone Bellow
- The Lone Bellow
- The Lone Bellow's debut album is a gem, full of haunting, passionate songs that breathe with country soul and a kind of autumnal grace.
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- Widowspeak
- Almanac
- Widowspeak's second album provides the missing link between Fleetwood Mac and Mazzy Star.
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- Foxygen
- We Are the 21st Century…
- A convergence of borrowed ideas, pop star mimicry, and brilliant songcraft result in an incredibly strong album from this nostalgic duo.
- He's My Brother She's …
- Nobody Dances in This…
- A solid debut from the self-described Los Angeles-based "glam-folk," "cirque rock," "garage country," and "desert pop" quintet.
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- Pillowfight
- Pillowfight
- Producer Dan the Automator and singer/songwriter/violinist Emily Wells partner for an album that recalls the best bits of trip-hop.
- Adam Ant
- Adam Ant Is the BlueBlack…
- Adam Ant makes a weird, wild, sometimes wonderful comeback on the messy Adam Ant Is the BlueBlack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter.
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- Bad Religion
- True North
- For their 16th album, Bad Religion are still delivering sturdy, memorable, and solidly crafted material.
- Big Harp
- Chain Letters
- On their sophomore offering, Big Harp move beyond the sonic confines of White Hat toward something more electric, raw, and rootsy.
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- Petra Haden
- Petra Goes to the Movies
- An (almost) all a cappella album that skillfully tackles Haden's favorite movie themes.
- Randy Houser
- How Country Feels
- Gone indie, Randy Houser winds up with a big, bright country-pop album that sounds as if it should be on the majors.
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- Carrie Rodriguez
- Give Me All You Got
- Everything on Carrie Rodriguez's new outing fits together like honey and smoke in a warm but vibrant Texas breeze.
- FaltyDL
- Hardcourage
- Cute, crafted, and rich, this fun bundle of irresistible future garage is the N.Y.C.-based producer at his finest.
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- Gary Allan
- Set You Free
- Gary Allan tightens up and lays back on Set You Free, a clean collection of no-frills modern country.
- Helloween
- Straight Out of Hell
- Immaculate blasts of impossibly tuneful power metal forged with humor, apocalyptic glee, and an unapologetic love for all things Iron Maiden.
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- Max Gomez
- Rule the World
- Sounding calm, unassuming, weary, and wise, Max Gomez sings with the kind of balance and unhurried phrasing of a Townes Van Zandt.
- Lavinia Meijer
- Philip Glass: Metamorphosis;…
- The kind of details Meijer adds to the music here are the same as what Glass himself has added to his music over the years. The result is an unusually satisfying…
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- DRGN King
- Paragraph Nights
- Singer/songwriter Dominic Angelella and hip-hop producer Ritz Reynolds joined forces for this soulful mix of slacker pop and psych-tinged rock.
- Voivod
- Target Earth
- Voivod's first studio album with guitarist Michael Langevin recalls the relentless creativity and power of Dimension Hatröss and Nothingface.
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- Pia Fraus
- Silmi Island
- 15-track collection of remixed (and sometime re-recorded) highlights from the career of the Estonian shoegaze revivalists.
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- The Pogues
- The Very Best of the Pogues…
- Concentrates heavily on the group's first three albums, where Shane MacGowan's writing was its sharpest and the band sounded best.
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- Don Rich
- Sings George Jones
- Buck Owens' guitarist Don Rich recorded this enjoyable collection of George Jones covers in 1970 and it remained unreleased until now.
- Buck Owens
- Honky Tonk Man: Buck Sings…
- A collection of 18 unheard, unreleased classic country covers Buck Owens cut for Hee Haw in the early '70s.
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- Billy Joel
- She's Got a Way: Love…
- Enjoyable collection of Billy Joel's romantic tunes.
- Horace Andy
- Broken Beats
- Dub meets left-field house music as the reggae legend teams with a set of electronica producers on this remix effort.
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- Trapt
- Reborn [Deluxe]
- Trapt return with a more expansive, electronic-influenced sound on their fifth album, Reborn.
- Dawn Richard
- Goldenheart
- The second proper album from the former member of Danity Kane and Diddy-Dirty Money is a theatrical contemporary R&B triumph.
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- The Holydrug Couple
- Noctuary
- Psychedelic duo the Holydrug Couple evoke the dreamy beauty of their native Chile on their full-length debut for Sacred Bones, Noctuary.
- Föllakzoid
- II
- The Chilean post-psych group on Sacred Bones specializes in long-winding space rock jams.
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- Jimbo Mathus / Jimbo M …
- White Buffalo
- Skillfully navigates the nooks and crannies of Americana, pulling out the sweet and succulent bits and serving them up with Southern hospitality.
- The Night Marchers
- Allez Allez
- The group's second album is another hot-to-the-touch blast of rock & roll fury powered by some of Speedo's typically great songs.
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- Nightlands
- Oak Island
- The dreamy, literally experimental pop of Nightlands' second album revisits the innocence of the past with newfound sophistication.
- Nosaj Thing
- Home
- Jason Chung's downcast second album, following an xx remix and a Kendrick Lamar production, features Chaz Bundick and Kazu Makino.
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- Patricia Barber
- Smash
- Smash is a poetically rich, musically creative meditation on lost love presented with insight, wit, searing honesty, and tenderness.
- Lisa Batiashvili / Dre …
- Johannes Brahms &…
- Batiashvili, playing a fearsome cadenza by Ferruccio Busoni in the first movement, is technically superb, but she doesn't let technique overwhelm enthusiasm.…
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- Máris Sirmais / State …
- Gabriel Jackson: A Ship…
- Ave regina caelorum (2008), in which the choir is joined by electric guitarist Kaspars Zemitis is a unique combination in the annals of choral music. It is…
- Say Anything
- All My Friends Are Enemies:…
- Early demos, rarities, and even the band's self-released debut are collected on the three-disc compilation All My Friends Are Enemies.
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staff picks
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This 1985 debut from (then) Orange County punks Social Distortion offers up a blistering snapshot of the blue collar rockers before they traded in their Dead Kennedys records, dog collars and mascara for Johnny Cash, bowler hats and suspenders.
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Jazz and Balkan flavors were combined with blues harp, funk, Afro-beat, and an appealing breeziness on this Naples, Italy-based band’s 2009 debut, Hubris. Slivovitz’s 2011 follow-up, Bani Ahead, whips those breezes into a full-on storm, with calmer moments emerging at just the right places.
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It had been a decade since Big Maybelle's commercial peak, and her life, which included heroin addiction and diabetes, hadn't been easy when Jack Taylor brought her into the studio for his Harlem-based Rojac Records in 1966, delivering her into a creative autumnal period at the end of her career.
