Apr 26, 2024
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A double album carries hard-wired associations, an unavoidable gravity of intent. A self-titled double album adds fuel to the fire; it’s an unequivocal statement, a neon-lit framing of a record as a defining artistic moment.
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Apr 24, 2024
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Yes’ July 24, 1971 performance at Yale University’s Yale Bowl has been officially released as part of the deluxe editions of the reissue of The Yes Album, but it has never been released as a stand-alone record until now.
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Apr 23, 2024
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Released for Record Store Day 2024, Waiting in the Sky (Before the Starman Came to Earth) envisions an alternate The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars.
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Apr 20, 2024
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How does one approach reviewing a Taylor Swift album? Well, with great difficulty, especially when there are no advance review copies or streams. It gets even more complicated when, just two hours after the release of The Tortured Poets Department, Swift casually announces The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, featuring 15 additional songs.
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Apr 18, 2024
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Bnny’s Jessica Viscius has said that her new record, One Million Love Songs, is an album “about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”
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Apr 17, 2024
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It’s rare that one gets to listen to old albums anew again. But that’s exactly what these Rhino High Fidelity vinyl reissues provide.
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Apr 16, 2024
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Reissued now, 30 years later, Jar of Flies hits with the same immediacy as it did in 1994.
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Apr 15, 2024
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Manic Street Preachers have often attempted to distance themselves from their stylized seventh album, Lifeblood. Haunted by a poor reaction from their followers and mainstream audiences, they hoped to seal it away and never speak of it again.
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