Abebe: On Coexist, the xx Stay Intimate by Getting Grander
On their sophomore album, the British trio face an audience that’s built up a tolerance for their sound.
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Abebe: New Albums by Dan Deacon and Matthew Dear Might Be Their Most Accomplished Yet
Our music critic reviews Deacon's America and Dear's Beams.
Music Review: Abebe on Write Me Back and the Multifaceted R. Kelly
Robert Kelly — Chicago institution, “Pied Piper of R&B,” formally acquitted of ignoble charges nobody’s forgotten — has a new record out this week.
Lovable, Talented Bore Jack White Stretches Out on His New Solo Album
Was a White Stripes breakup the best thing that could have happened to this songwriter?
Pulp’s Reunion Show Is the Greatest Revival in Midtown
The enduring appeal of Jarvis Cocker's "slightly shady form of glamour.”
The Indie-Folk Crossover: Commercials for Our Selves in a Hunger Games World
Twilight's emo-gothic glitter has been replaced by a hardscrabble, triumphal, suspender-friendly sound.
Music Review: The Apathy and Ecstasy of Madonna’s MDNA
Madge gets lost on her latest return to the dance floor.
Bruce Springsteen Was the Past and the Present at the Apollo Friday Night
He's still the hardest working white man in show business at 62.
Estelle, Robert Glasper, and the Inescapable Chris Brown
New albums by the British soul singer and American pianist-turned-bandleader. Plus, why Brown is the Monsanto of R&B.
Prinzhorn Dance School: The Beauty of Obsessive, Barking English People
The most wonderfully beady-eyed band in recent memory puts out a great second album.
Lost in Dream-Pop: Shimmering New Music From King Krule and Bradford Cox
A London teenager and a Georgia indie-rock leader find a common sound.
How Coldplay Became Possibly the First Band to Be Humanized by a Concept Album
The charming theatricality of 'Mylo Xyloto' actually brings Coldplay's mid-tempo pomp uplift down to earth.
Watch the Throne: Uneasy Heads Wear Gaudy Crowns
The new album from Kanye West and Jay-Z is equal parts tiresome and fascinating.
Fiery Furnaces Separate Heart and Head on New Solo Albums
Eleanor Friedberger's 'Last Summer' is a charming pop scrapbook; brother Matthew is working through an eight-album series that sounds like technical research.
Bon Iver’s Indie Soft-Rock: Transcendent or Torpid?
On wanting just a little more from Justin Vernon.
Gang Gang Dance’s Pop Science-Fiction
The Manhattan band creates amalgamations of cultures, moods, and technologies that haven't yet intermingled, but look and sound like they've existed for decades.
Hip-Hop Roundup: DJ Quik Soundtracks the Barbecue, Cam’ron Studies Macroeconomics, and Curren$y Smokes Out
Three new hip-hop albums reviewed.
Tune-Yards: Big Ideas for Wild Dance Parties
'W h o k i l l' is a truly original album that mixes raw African pop and contemporary classical rhythms with fascinating lyrics about American class inequality and racial dynamics.
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