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“Could life be heaven on earth?/After the hell we been through?” Kali Uchis asks on the opening track of her fifth album, Sincerely, posing a question that also serves as the record’s thesis statement. “Heaven Is a Home,” with a cinematic string overture reminiscent of the same Old Hollywood feel …

“If you give me another chance, I’m probably gonna fuck it up anyway” — now that’s some admirable self-knowledge. The Toronto punk boys in Pup are veterans by now, going strong on their fifth album Who Will Look After the Dogs? Twelve years past their frantic, funny debut, they still …

If you’re thinking about diving into The Scholars, the new album from Car Seat Headrest, don’t mess around. Go past the three-minute songs, and the four-minute one and the eight-minute one, and the 10- and 11-minute ones, too. Go straight to the main event, the 18-minute “Planet Desperation.” Will Toledo …

“Play your own fucking songs!” a bearded man yelled at Eric Church during the country singer’s headlining performance at 2024’s Stagecoach festival. Church, seated on a stool with his guitar in his hands and a gospel choir behind him, was midway through a freewheeling set — of hymns, covers of …

For her second album as Blondshell, L.A. singer-songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum is figuring out how much of her life story she wants to tell the world — how much she needs to tell — and how much to hide away for herself. On her acclaimed 2023 self-titled debut, she was really …

Neil Young isn’t just one of the most covered songwriters of all time, he’s also one of the most tributed. There have been several albums of people doing his songs released over the decades, first and most famously the 1989 LP The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, populated by …

If you were to look up “bedroom troubadour” in the dictionary, you’d surely find a mugshot of a cocky d4vd. From his homespun BandLab setup to his TikTok tremors, the Houston viral-pop newbie has mastered the wounded-heart torch song. Just jump on Spotify, and you’ll find a myriad of tattered …

Coco Jones’ first album may have taken a while to fully come to fruition. But as the question posed by its title indicates, the actor and singer holds the world to pretty exacting standards — and her debut full-length is a confident, sumptuous statement of intent that places her firmly …

Thirteen songs into Goose’s Everything Must Go, one track before it wraps up, an unexpected twist arrives: a hint of edge. The narrator of “Silver Rising” is borderline unhinged, rattled by something evil in his back story. “I’m not the man I was/There’s a killer inside me,” sings main songwriter, …

“Na god dey bless me all the way/Twelve years I’m still on top,” Davido sings on “Be There Still,” the resolute third single from his fifth studio album. In many ways, much like 5ive’s no-nonsense name, the Afrobeats icon’s career speaks for itself. He became a Nigerian sensation by the …