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The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Armed
The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
Sargent House
Pop/Rock, Electronic
After a few albums of iconoclastic pop experimentation, this Detroit art-punk collective returns to the chaos of their hardcore roots.
- Fred Thomas
Sunset BoulevardEditor's choice
Elvis Presley
Sunset Boulevard
RCA / Sony Music
Pop/Rock, Country
Newly remixed studio masters and outtakes from Presley's 1970s Los Angeles sessions for the greatest breakup album that never was.
- Mark Deming
Ain't Done With the BluesEditor's choice
Buddy Guy
Ain't Done With the Blues
RCA
Blues
At 89, the Chicago-by-way-of-Lousiana singer/guitarist remains a potent blues force.
- Matt Collar
The Starrr of the Queen of Life
Debby Friday
The Starrr of the Queen of Life
Sub Pop
Electronic, Pop/Rock, Rap
The Polaris Prize winner's celestially inspired second album is both more introspective and hedonistic than her debut.
- Paul Simpson
If Not WinterEditor's choice
Wisp
If Not Winter
Interscope / Music Soup
Pop/Rock
Ranging from crushing riffs to ambient collages, Natalie Lu's debut album secures her place as one of the definitive shoegaze artists of the 2020s.
- Heather Phares
West of BroadwayEditor's choice
Rachael & Vilray
West of Broadway
Concord Jazz
Jazz, Vocal
On their Concord debut, the East Coast vocal duo offer a fresh take on melding traditional pop, musicals, and West Coast jazz.
- Thom Jurek
Maybe I'm DreamingEditor's choice
Various Artists
Maybe I'm Dreaming
Anthology Recordings
Pop/Rock, Folk
The fourth volume in this compilation series of unknown soft rock artists from the '70s and '80s focuses on even deeper obscurities from private press recordings.
- Fred Thomas
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres of Paradise
Haunted Dancehall
Warp
Electronic
Brilliant slice of classic electronica that slashes across genres -- dub, funk, trip-hop, film music -- like a pirate with a noir techno style.
- Tim Sendra

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Zac Farro is likely best known as a co-founder and member of Paramore, but he also established himself as a solo artist under the name HalfNoise as well. He first shot to fame as the drummer in Paramore, a key band in a new wave of pop-punk acts in the late 2000s. His at-times rocky tenure with the group -- departing the line-up after 2010’s Read More about Zac Farro

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I Love People
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Dominique Fils-Aimé
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Marcus Miller
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March 16, 2015
Contemporary Jazz
The bassist's guest-filled Blue Note debut reveals in a sophisticated, exceptionally ambitious manner the labyrinthine interconnectedness of earlier sounds and rhythms -- which emerged from bondage and horrific suffering -- to new ones that bring the world joy.
- Thom Jurek
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