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Tag: Albums
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Holiday Gift Guides 2021: Musicality
For singers, dancers, composers, listeners and lovers of music
Jubilee Vinyl
$25.00
Limited to 500 copies and available only at Rough Trade, this special edition of Japanese Breakfast’s Jubilee comes on a clear green vinyl. The indie band, helmed by singer and author Michelle Zauner, …
Fatigue Vinyl
$20.00
Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist L’Rain’s experimental album Fatigue sonically and conceptually ponders the meaning of change—and is out now on vinyl via Mexican Summer. L’Rain (aka Taja Creek) draws from an array of styles—including …
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Silky, sultry, soulful and psych-inflected new songs from the week
Charli XCX feat. Christine and the Queens + Caroline Polachek: New Shapes
Charli XCX has officially announced her upcoming album Crash (out 18 March) and from it released “New Shapes” featuring French singer-songwriter Christine and the Queens (aka Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier) and NYC-based artist …
HARD FEELINGS Vinyl
$32.00
When Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard teamed up with Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Amy Douglas, a project that began as a couple of songs grew into an EP and then the eight-song banger that is …
The Making of Amy Douglas + Joe Goddard’s HARD FEELINGS
We speak with the NYC songstress about her dramatic house/disco collaboration with the Hot Chip member
KiCk i LP
$19.00
Just as the Barcelona-based producer and performer Arca embraces gender euphoria in her public life, the artist’s latest album, KiCk i, eliminates any notion of a binary by celebrating her vast multitudes. …
The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt on Brevity, Dread + Writing Songs in Bars
We speak with the prolific singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist ahead of his seven-city tour