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Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard’s first album together, and their most commercially successful to date,
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Kacey Musgraves: Pageant Material
One myth that persists in music listening is the idea that artists arrive fully formed,
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Joel Plaskett: Park Avenue Sobriety Test
Joel Plaskett’s first solo album was called In Need of Medical Attention. This time, on
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Alan Jackson: Angels and Alcohol
Angels and Alcohol, the 20th Alan Jackson studio album, opens gently, with him singing with
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Ashley Monroe: The Blade
If it feels like Ashley Monroe had two debut albums, it’s because it’s sort of
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Tunde Olaniran: Transgressor
Flint, Michigan-based artist Tunde Olaniran might seem like an eccentric, an innovator; someone blazing his
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Sweet Baboo: The Boombox Ballads
The album title The Boombox Ballads first made me imagine Welshman Stephen Black’s latest album
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Luke Bryan: Kill the Lights
Anthony Easton’s ideas about Bryan and pleasure seem as good a place to start as
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Seapony: A Vision
Call it purity of vision, if you will, when a band releases three albums that
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Maddie & Tae: Start Here
Madison Marlow and Taylor Dye made a grand entrance in 2014 with their hit song
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Kurt Vile: B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down
B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down feels very much like another Kurt Vile album, but close listening will reveal some serious blues.
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Don Henley: Cass County
A recent CBS Sunday Morning profile of Don Henley depicted him as a wealthy, successful
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Old Dominion: Meat and Candy
I often wonder what romantic comedies will do with their meet-cutes now that the strangers
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The Legends: It’s Love
I used to think of the Legends as Johan Angergård’s rock band, compared to his
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The Best Indie Pop of 2015
Indie-pop has become such a wide-ranging descriptor used to describe everything from cutesy, Target-ad-ready tunes
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A Tribe Called Quest: People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm...
Most reviews of this 25th Anniversary Edition of the debut A Tribe Called Quest album
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Your Friend: Gumption
Your Friend’s debut EP Jekyll/Hyde cut through a lot of the world’s noise with a
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Nap Eyes: Thought Rock Fish Scale
“Mixer”, the opening track on Nap Eyes’ second album Thought Rock Fish Scale opens with
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The Prettiots: Funs Cool
“Boys (That I Dated in High School)”, the first single from the debut album by
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Father: I’m a Piece of Shit
After an album of oversized debauchery called Who’s Gonna Get F**ked First?, Father returns with….
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Ears
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s debut Euclid was one of the prettiest albums of 2015 — a
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Keith Urban: Ripcord
Rhythm is a driving force behind Keith Urban’s eighth album Ripcord, and his music in
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Dierks Bentley: Black
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Ngaiire: Blastoma
“Blastoma” might feel like an unfamiliar word, but it’s one Ngaiire Joseph knows intimately. It’s
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Willie Nelson: For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price
The title For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price indicates a case where
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A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service
A Tribe Called Quest’s new, sixth album We Got It From Here, Thank You 4
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The Best Indie Pop of 2016
It felt appropriate that one of the last major indie pop records of 2016 was
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Fred Thomas: Changer
The energy is immediately different on Fred Thomas’ Changer than on his last album, 2015’s
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Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home
Jimmy Scott passed away June 12, 2014, yet anyone who ever heard his voice still
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Kath Bloom: This Dream of Life
The title This Dream of Life recalls Kath Bloom’s hard-to-track-down 1994 album It’s Just a
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Jake Xerxes Fussell: What in the Natural World
Traditional music can feel too often like a costume party — you see the surfaces,
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Guided By Voices: August By Cake
It took a few attempts at doing the math to get to the same number
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Kendrick Lamar: DAMN.
“Children, listen, it gets deep…” That’s Kendrick Lamar, on the final track of his new
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The Mountain Goats: Goths
The Mountain Goats going directly from an album about professional wrestling to one about goth-rock
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Last Leaves –“The World We Had” (video) (premiere)
The cherished Australian indie-pop band the Lucksmiths dissolved in 2009, after 16 years of witty,
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The Best Indie Pop of 2017
From a certain angle, the tropes and styles associated with indie pop music — twee
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The Best Country Music of 2017
Year to year, country music as a genre sometimes seems to roll on without paying
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Migos Go Massive with ‘Culture II’ and Stake Their Claim Atop the Rap Game
The Atlanta-based hip-hop trio Migos was one of the dominant forces in popular music in
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The Best Indie Pop of 2018
Real talk: year-end list-making is unfair, even cruel. We treat the year as 11 months.
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Faye Webster Beckons Us to Join the Club
If you didn’t know our current era was rife with referential genre stylings used in
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Hatchie’s ‘Keepsake’ Is Dream Pop for Our Doom
If you’re searching for one word to describe the ’80s-leaning-into-’90s dream-pop throughline running through varied
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The 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2009
Pop music is always in flux. Indie-pop seems especially so. In part it’s the way
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The 20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2019
20. Epic Beard Men – This Was Supposed to Be Fun [Strange Famous] Starting with
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The 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2019
Take the music world as a whole, and 2019 seemed marked by the continual movement
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The 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2010
Is indie-pop hip now? It does seem like indie-label music fans are embracing pop sounds
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The 10 Best Country Albums of 2010
2010 began with Taylor Swift winning Grammy’s Album of the Year award for Fearless, the
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Prince and the New Power Generation –‘Diamonds and Pearls’ (Between the Grooves)
Prince‘s 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls, which introduced his band the New Power Generation, is
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The 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2020
I need to say it: Making a year-end list feels irrelevant right now, at the
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The 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2011
The 10 best indie pop albums of 2011 prove that our most interesting musicians can express themselves within the essential pop song form while changing how we think about music.
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The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2011
2011 was a year of great diversity, in which rap fans were faced with enough variety to find whatever flavor of hip-hop they wanted.
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