Stephen Thompson

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For The First Time In A Decade, Metric's Emily Haines Goes Solo

Friday, June 09, 2017

In 2006, the singer took a break from the dance-pop group Metric to record solemnly gorgeous solo music. In September, she and her band The Soft Skeleton will return with Choir Of The Mind.

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If A New Lorde Song Comes Out And You Don't Hear It, Is It Still The Weekend?

Friday, June 09, 2017

Lorde's Melodrama comes out June 16, and she's already released its fourth single: a stormy epic about regret called "Sober," timed to coincide with the start of an eventful weekend.

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Watch: Iron & Wine Returns To Roots On 'Beast Epic,' Out In August

Thursday, June 08, 2017

The new album's first single, "Call It Dreaming," strips Sam Beam's sound back down to its warm, relatively unadorned essence.

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First Listen: Fleet Foxes, 'Crack-Up'

Thursday, June 08, 2017

On his band's first album in six years, Robin Pecknold seeks peace in a chaotic world — and works to that end by crafting songs that soothe without forgoing creative ambition.

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First Listen: Big Thief, 'Capacity'

Monday, June 05, 2017

Capacity takes singer Adrianne Lenker to quieter and more private places, with an inward-facing sound to match her ever richer, altogether more intimate storytelling.

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'Mr. Brightside' Will Never Die, And Here's Why

Sunday, June 04, 2017

The Killers' 2004 hit has never entirely disappeared from the U.K. charts. Is the song just that great? (Yes.)

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After Days Of Buildup, Arcade Fire Shares 'Everything Now' With The World

Thursday, June 01, 2017

The first single from the band's fifth album describes a loud, media-saturated world in which instant gratification seems to make everyone less happy.

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Rainer Maria Returns With 'Lower Worlds,' From Its First Album Since 2006

Thursday, June 01, 2017

On August 18, the band returns with S/T, an album that both sounds like Rainer Maria and reflects the far-flung journeys its members have taken individually.

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Foo Fighters' New Song, 'Run,' Sparks A Nursing-Home Uprising

Thursday, June 01, 2017

Clad in old-man makeup, Dave Grohl's band returns with a blistering new song — and a video in which the violent elderly are unleashed on an unwitting world.

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With 'Still Summer,' Matt Pond PA Announces Its Final Album

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

If "Still Summer" had been recorded by The Cars in 1984, it'd already be a classic.

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Mutual Benefit Covers An Entire Vashti Bunyan Album

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Hear "Jog Along Bess" and "Glow Worms" from Mutual Benefit's album-length remake of Bunyan's 1970 classic Just Another Diamond Day.

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Watch: Saintseneca Goes Nuts With The Fisheye Lens

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

A new video provides a perfect match for Saintseneca's mystery, beauty and undercurrent of deep weirdness.

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Songs We Love: The New Year, 'Mayday'

Friday, May 26, 2017

With couplets as clean and exact as the guitars that chime neatly around them, the mathematical precision of "Mayday" never gets in the way of shaggy, ragged beauty.

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Hanson's Got A New Song, And Guess What? It's Fantastic

Friday, May 26, 2017

"I Was Born" is out today, and if it's not in a car commercial by this time next week, every ad agency in America will have fallen down on the job.

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First Listen: Amber Coffman, 'City Of No Reply'

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Coffman's first album since leaving Dirty Projectors reads like a love letter to the act of going solo, in life as in music.

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With 'The Seeker,' Cloud Cult Makes A Movie To Match Its Music

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The Twin Cities band's latest project is a feature film called The Seeker, which builds on themes of love, optimism, pain and belief. Watch the video for "No Hell."

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Julia Jacklin: Tiny Desk Concert

Monday, May 22, 2017

A restrained, whisper-soft Tiny Desk concert from Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin with songs taken from her debut album Don't Let The Kids Win.

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Watch Alabama Shakes Travel Back In Time With Cover Of 'Killer Diller'

Thursday, May 18, 2017

For the PBS documentary series American Epic, Alabama Shakes' members used 1920s-era equipment to record a cover of "Killer Diller."

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Hear The Previously Unreleased Beach House Song, 'Chariot'

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The track is one of two never-before-heard songs on B-Sides And Rarities, a career-spanning Beach House compilation due out June 30.

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Noga Erez Imagines A Dystopia Where The Hand-People Judge Us All

Monday, May 15, 2017

The Israeli singer-songwriter makes politically charged dance music — banging, throbbing stuff full of messages about power and independence.

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