21 Savage Plays it a Little Too Tough
The Atlanta rap superstar tries satiating hardcore fans with mixed results on What Happened to the Streets?
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The Atlanta rap superstar tries satiating hardcore fans with mixed results on What Happened to the Streets?
Two hip-hop icons deliver a heartwarming collaboration on Light-Years, the final installment in Mass Appeal’s “Legend Has It…” series
A stunning 50th-anniversary edition of Wish You Were Here is filled with heroes and ghosts, as well as demos, outtakes, and official bootleg recordings
Her new double LP, Live at Glastonbury (A BBC Recording), is a killer coronation moment
Cabin in the Sky, the iconic hip-hop group’s first album in nearly a decade, movingly honors co-founder Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, who died in 2023
Her surprise new EP, Love Is a Kingdom, sees the Nigerian pop star take on doubters and clear space for calm
Companion album to the new edition of the ultimate Beatles documentary is now 191 tracks, including the triple-vinyl Anthology 4
The R&B star plays with a gold-digging motif on Finally Over It, but takes her survey of vintage R&B seriously
The Aussie foursome have fun with their past while continuing to play with darker sounds on Everyone’s a Star!
Originally conceived as an expanded edition of her excellent EUSEXUA, the U.K. pop innovator’s new EUSEXUA Afterglow is a stand-alone LP
Featuring audition jams with Jeff Beck and Harvey Mandel, as well as rare tracks and concert recordings, a new expanded reissue of the band’s 1976 album gives us a 360 look at a crucial turning point
His partying days behind him, a hip-hop wildcard mixes jarring beats and beaming gratitude
Pop’s most provocative chaos agent delivers a transcendent album that sounds like nothing else in music right now
The iconic 86-year-old singer covers Frank Ocean, Leonard Cohen and more on Sad and Beautiful World
Florence + the Machine’s sixth album Everybody Scream turns a painful experience into an artistic triumph
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and her twin sister Allison Crutchfield of Swearin’ get together for a fantastic surprise album
The eclectic U.K. artist takes a brutal emotional inventory on West End Girl
Through the Open Window, the latest installment of his Bootleg Series, traces how a complete unknown became the master of his folk domain
On Caos, the adventurous R&B artist calls on his heritage as he processes our brutal reality
On Returning to Myself the esteemed singer-songwriter turns inward
On her new album, Who Did the Body, the Houston rapper embodies an ethic of Blackness rooted in community and commitment
The singer just wants to have fun on her new album, It’s Not That Deep
On The BPM, the violinist and singer-songwriter offers complex music that exists between the past, the present, and 10 minutes from now
A mythic Electric Nebraska may not technically exist, but this five-disc set is a fascinating exploration of Bruce’s haunting 1982 album
On their new album LOTTO the crucial shoegaze band takes a huge leap forward
On Deadbeat, his first album in five years, Kevin Parker mixes frazzled moods and plush beats
London band’s new album Some Like It Hot mixes up postpunk, Britpop, shoegaze, and psychedelia with their own melodramatic flair
The rapper has stirred up drama, and with her versatile LP Bianca, she wants to keep our attention
Nine-CD set is a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as political radicals thriving in NYC’s eclectic energy
Singer-songwriter’s new Fatal Optimist scales back her sound, but not her devastating emotional honesty
The Marías frontwoman explores love, longing, and loss on the lush, labyrinthine Melt
On their second collaboration, Peter Buck and cult troubadour Joseph Arthur make some late-period indie magic
On her 12th studio album, Swift hits all her marks — from new, exciting sonic turns to incisive storytelling
UY Scuti is the Atlanta rap super star’s first release since getting out of prison and you can hear the burden of that experience
This time out, she’s all about synth-pop and R&B sounds from the Hair Decade with erratic but fun results
On Cosa Nuestra: Capítulo 0, the Puerto Rican hitmaker offers a wide-ranging tour of the region’s sounds
Gifted British singer-songwriter’s second LP The Art of Loving pushes her music into an elevated tier
Swedish pop artist’s high-energy fifth album mixes joy and confusion
On her long-awaited 16th studio album, the superstar mostly stays in her pocket and proves her voice is still intact
One of the most original artists in indie music comes up with something opaquely alluring and genuinely moving on her seventh album, Michelangelo Dying
A Nashville wildcard delivers down-home chest-thumping with a wink
The Wilco frontman turns in 30 new tracks that earn their keep and offer some hope for a troubled world
On their sixth album, Karly Hartzman and Co. trap darkness and heartbreak in creek-rock amber
The soundtrack for TRON: Ares sees Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross balance abstraction and aggression
U.K. pop star mixes ripped-from-the-text-bubbles lyrics and sour-bubblegum alt-pop on her third album
We’ve waited seven long years for the rap queen’s second album, and she does not disappoint
A long-awaited reissue of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s 1973 debut, Buckingham Nicks, takes us back to the beginning of rock & roll’s ultimate dysfunctional romance
Girl Violence sets introspective hunger to mussed up New Wave
The singer-songwriter superstar taps into some fun cross-cultural rhythms, but he mostly sticks to his trusty formula
Little Mix member thrills in the dancefloor’s abandon and her own power on That’s Showbiz Baby!
Korean Australian singer-songwriter delivers a great introspective indie-pop on her Misunderstood EP
The sophisticated U.K. pop trio say goodbye at their height of their power with International
Bieber follows the surprisingly good Swag with the depressingly safe Swag II
Joni’s Jazz spans Mitchell’s career in its effort to prove she wasn’t just a singer-songwriter.
The avant-pop icon playfully ponders love, aging, and other curiosities with help from a great bunch of collaborators
One of the best bands around travels wide-open inner spaces on their spellbinding sixth album Double Infinity
Enigmatic U.K. musician Dev Hynes delivers a quietly intoxicating LP
Her great seventh album delivers a thoroughly modern tour of dating set to a Seventies pastiche sound
Rapper’s stellar new album, Live Laugh Love, shows his continued growth as a man with a deeper understanding of the world and his place in it
Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson mixes Nashville storytelling, folk-ish pop, and rock meltdowns on her great third album Euro-Country
Paramore singer’s excellent new Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party was released in early August as a 17-track digital download. Now it’s coming out as an official album
The prolific country artists gets back to her roots on Hard Headed Woman
On Supreme Clientele 2, the Wu-Tang legend does his classic original justice with an outrageously entertaining sequel
New Zealand indie rockers get introspective on Straight Line Was a Lie
Ain’t in It for My Health brings to mind legends like George Strait and Alan Jackson
Atlanta rapper finds moments of earworm ecstasy on new album Paradise
The 20-year-old musician’s knack for luscious harmonies, melancholy lyrics, and perfect melodies — plus his boundless rockstar confidence — make for a standout LP on I Barely Know Her
On Escape Room, the forward-looking R&B artist navigates trauma and grief to arrive at a new beginning
Combining trap beats with the raspy, tear-in-your-beer tunes, the Texas artist offers a Nashville temperature check with I Hope You’re Happy
Rap superstar’s new album, Kiari, is the best solo music he’s made so far
On her third album, A Matter of Time, this talented throwback-pop flag-waiver has her own spin on the cycle of limerence, love, and loss
Eclectic U.K. band’s latest album combines classic pop-rock gestures with lyrics about navigating life
On their eighth album, Adam Levine and Co. sneak Seventies funk obscurities onto a late-summer pop cruise, along with guests Sexyy Red, Lisa, and Lil Wayne
Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) is an excellent track-for-track live remake of their politically charged 2003 LP
His first album since 2019’s poorly received The Big Day delivers big-tent Black politics with an earned sense of optimism
The R&B artist and in-demand songwriter obliterates expectation
Influential DJ-producer’s latest runs on house and a tweaked version of disco, returning to the crisp, fluttering tracks he made his name on
The singer’s new album Wishbone mixes slow intimate moments with hit-worthy pop-rock cuts
After writing for TV and collaborating with Gracie Abrams, a sharp pop singer-songwriter delivers her cinematic debut, Who’s the Clown?
Boundary-busting singer’s latest is a masterclass in controlled hedonism
The changeable star gets personal, channels Springsteen and Mellencamp, and keeps refusing to sit still
Two hip-hop vets find common ground
After enduring a life-altering crisis, the Atlanta rap star finds himself in a reflective mood on his sixth album
The Atlanta rapper’s first album in three years, God Does Like Ugly, finds him a leader in life and music
Bounce artist delivers a musically and spiritually inclusive gospel album
Prolific Texas country singer’s latest, Dollar a Day, plays like a mashup of a soundtrack to a spaghetti western and one for a 1970s crime film
After a career hiccup, the reliable rock duo ground themselves with a smooth, solid LP
The ambitious pop outlier’s latest, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, is haunting but lacks the dynamism of her best work
The fifth studio album from the California indie-pop band is their most compelling in nearly a decade
Hell-raising rocker parties her troubles away on her uproarious second album
Indie singer-songwriter explores grown-up problems on her fantastic fourth album
New super deluxe reissue of Talking Heads’ groundbreaking 1978 LP More Songs About Buildings and Food dives deep into an album that mixed panic-attack propulsion and highwire anxiety
Country trailblazer’s Rick Rubin-produced new album offers sonic swerves and his best songwriting yet
The U.K. rapper finds hope amidst trauma on his excellent new mixtape
The solid luxury-rap tales on the iconic Wu-Tang Clan member’s first LP in eight years offer a perfect example of how to age gracefully in what is allegedly a young man’s game
The 28-minute Don’t Tap the Glass feels like an entertaining pit stop on the way to something bigger
You’ll Be Alright, Kid, the debut from the 24-year-old behind the unlikely summer smash “Ordinary,” shows off an appealing personality and leans on sweeping gestures
The sequel to 2019’s chart-topping Jackboys showcases the rapper’s Cactus Jack imprint
Philly’s indie hero adds to his discography of unassumingly brilliant folk-rock on his major-label debut
New live album The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 captures Sly and the Family Stone just before they released their debut album