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Pop, Girls, Etc.: Sade, “All My Friends” and a farewell to Phife

The monthly roundup of what’s good, including a 2007 LCD Soundsystem song, a hip-hop duo reunion tour and more.

Da Art of Storytellin’: Hibernation’s over

A round-up of some great new hip-hop releases.

The Best Albums of March 2018

The albums that made our March.

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Roundtable: Morning motivation music

The music that gets our days started.

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Remake/Remodel: Trimming down Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Adore’

Making an already good mid-career album even stronger.

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Shadow of the Horns: Don’t feed the trolls

Metal is full of trolls, but they don’t speak for everyone.

Come out and play

Power pop and making sense of our youth

Songs don’t need to do any extra labor, they can just be songs.

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Pop, Girls, Etc.: Janelle Monáe, Black Star reunion and Donald Glover

Donald Glover’s fucked-uppedness and Janelle Monáe’ channeling Prince.

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Pop Life: Justin Timberlake is emblematic of pop music’s vacuum

Tumbleweeds appear to be rolling across the pop landscape right now.

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Shadow of the Horns: 20 Years of Southern Lord

Celebrating a label that helped to change the metal landscape.

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Pop, Girls, Etc.: Black Panther, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Whitest Song Ever

Charting the significant pop culture moments of the past month.

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Da Art of Storytellin’: False awards

Our hip-hop column returns with some laments about Grammys lameness.

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Year in Review 2017: Jeff Terich

Idles, Mulatu Astatke, David Lynch’s movie, er, TV masterpiece and more.

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Year in Review 2017: Patrick Pilch

Yo La Tengo in Central Park, Dear Nora on the bus, and Pile everywhere.

Year in Review 2017: Ernesto Aguilar

Diamanda Galas, Public Enemy and more.

Year in Review 2017: Virginia Croft

The Boss, The Krule, The Teig and more.

Year in review 2017: Wil Lewellyn

Young Thug, Tombs, Aronofsky and more.