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1. Michael Stipe Struts On ‘Rooster’ Theme Song

   The artist teamed with Pearl Jam/Lady Gaga producer Andrew Watt for 'I Played the Fool.'

2. Jonny Greenwood Regroups With Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express

   Its title track is out now in tandem with an Ian Patrick-directed video.

3. Kim Gordon Is Captivating, Commanding On ‘PLAY ME’

   A funny thing happened on the way to reviewing Kim Gordon’s third solo record. Because of the somewhat treacherous DSP this reviewer endures, the protected stream was crippled by digital dropouts, glitchery, buffering, overmodulation, you name it. After rebooting, refreshing and revisiting the apparatus, listening to PLAY ME (Matador) felt like a bonus remix. This […]

4. Back to Black

   The last four years have been especially heavy for Zakk Wylde.  From filling in for his departed friend Dimebag Darrell on a world tour with Pantera, to honoring musical patriarch Ozzy Osbourne at the historic “Back to the Beginning” show in Birmingham, England, this past summer, and then getting the devastating news that the legend […]

5. Jill Scott, Unbothered and Unleashed

   Since her start in the jazz club, spoken word scene of Philadelphia, poet-vocalist Jill Scott has been a bright beacon of Black life in all of its richly detailed glory. With her debut album, 2000’s Who is Jill Scott: Words and Sound Vol 1, the singer’s elegant, streetwise tales of self-empowerment and self-respect got wrapped […]

6. Squeeze Tackle Teenage Rock Opera On ‘Trixies’

   A song cycle centering on a mythical bar and its working class stiffs and gangsters that’s one-part Cheers, the other The Untouchables.

7. Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe Discusses Four Hairy Dudes Making One Hell of an Angry New Album

   Onstage with Lamb of God, singer Randy Blythe is a man of action and fury. He’s a formidable presence at the head of his Richmond, Virginia, groove-metal act, but he’d be the first to point to the long line of punks, thrashers, screamers, hardboiled writers, artists, and other inspirational outcasts who came before. On the […]

8. Shabaka Picks Up the Sax and Drops Some Beats

   In the early days of 2023, Shabaka Hutchings announced he’d be putting down his saxophone. This meant curtains or an indefinite hiatus for his celebrated jazz bands Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, and a flute-heavy palette for his debut full-length as a leader, 2024’s Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. But one […]

9. THE GREAT PRETENDERS

   It is unwise to talk about skinwalkers. It is supposedly said by the Navajo — who otherwise say very little — that to bring them up will bring their evil in. Perhaps it is better to discuss the windigo of the Algonquin instead. Or the doppelgängers of Germany. How about the fetches and changelings of […]

10. Michael Stipe Joins R.E.M. Tribute Pals In New York

    For the second year in a row, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe made a surprise appearance with...