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Panic! At the Disco

Viva Las Vengeance

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The band's seventh album is a love letter to rock & roll, full of knowing exuberance and references to rock's golden gods.

- Matt Collar

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Revenge is a dish best served by John Darnielle, as he explores getting even through the lens of classic crime cinema.

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This raw, hard rock pivot from the erstwhile pop star is a thrilling, pleasant surprise.

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A playful, breezy tenth full-length that looks at music and humanity through a delightfully wry lens.

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The invigorated sixth set from the alt-rock foursome lives up to its title with urgency and bite.

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Freakout/Release

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Recorded at the band's own studio, their crisp, engaging eighth album finds opportunities to grow closer -- or start over -- during moments of crisis.

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A less haunted but equally satisfying second installment of the electronic duo's Profound Mysteries project.

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The members of Russian Circles composed the songs on their eighth album individually, allowing some variation in the post-metal trio's signature sound.

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Career-spanning anthology from this New Zealand lo-fi duo illuminates just how profound their influence was on most of the indie rock that followed.

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Big Black

Atomizer

1986

Alternative/Indie Rock

In the mid-80s, when many underground bands were eager to show how grimly transgressive they could be, Big Black claimed the heavyweight championship with 1986's Atomizer, welding buzzsaw guitars and sledgehammer electronic beats to lyrics depicting despicable behavior with casual familiarity. Steve Albini is still trying to live down the "Edgelord" banner this music helped him win, but this music remains ferociously powerful and honestly unsettling. Bad karma at its best.

- Mark Deming

Piero Umiliani

Piero's Pleasure: The Touch of Piero Umiliani

May 21, 2007

Film Music

Although not as well known outside of Italy as Ennio Morricone or Nino Rita, this Rome-based contemporary will appeal to many of their fans. His most prolific period is represented on this 80-minute compilation, which pulls from ten different soundtracks released between 1965 and 1975. Included is the popular "Mah Nà Mah Nà" from 1968's Sweden: Heaven and Hell, which was soon covered on Sesame Street and -- later and more memorably -- The Muppet Show, in 1977.

- Marcy Donelson