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Halfway through the second track off his newest album, Cosa Nuestra: Capítulo 0, Rauw Alejandro sings, “The Caribbean can’t be explained; it’s felt, it’s lived, it’s honored.” If the album has a thesis, those lines would be it. On last year’s Cosa Nuestra — which he’s said Capítulo 0 (“Chapter …

When Doja Cat decides to go Eighties, she doesn’t mess around. On Vie, Doja devotes an entire album to the pop and R&B sounds of the Hair Decade, an album full of pastels and neon and mega-cheese sax solos. She’s always had a thing for Eighties synth-pop, as in hits …

Since she began making records in the early 2010s, Welsh-born, California-based Cate Le Bon has staked out her own unique avant-pop space, especially on excellent recent albums like 2019’s Reward and 2022’s Pompeii. Her warmly stentorian singing and dreamy lyrics can have a de-centering effect, so her music often gets …

Does Mariah Carey even want to perform anymore? That was the question on the minds of concerned fans and casual onlookers alike this year after a series of middling public appearances and shows that saw the normally-engaged singer looking uncharacteristically downcast and detached. On her long-awaited 16th studio album, Here …

Hardy’s tough to pin down. He’s the Woodstock ’99 of country hitmakers, someone who screams as many choruses as he sings, someone who is as likely to collaborate with Fred Durst as Lainey Wilson, someone Nickelback and boygenius agree on. He’s headlining Madison Square Garden even though most of his …

“Say I wanna have your baby/‘Cause I freckle and you tan.” It’s a startlingly great couplet that’s been rattling inside our heads all summer, ever since Wednesday previewed their new album, Bleeds, with the single “Elderberry Wine” in May. Some might tell their partner, “I hope our kid gets your …

Humanity is in a bad way these days, in case you haven’t noticed. Jeff Tweedy has, and he made an album about it — three albums, in fact. Wilco’s prolific frontman has described his new triple LP as his humble effort to push back against the overwhelming darkness of life …

She’s baaaaack. Cardi B has finally returned with Am I the Drama?, one of the most hotly awaited second albums in history. Incredibly, it’s been seven years since the Bronx queen crashed into the music world with her classic debut, Invasion of Privacy, like a one-woman explosion of neon hip-hop …

Lola Young isn’t one for pleasantries. “I just wanna fuck guys who don’t like me they don’t mind/Saying goodbye,” the rasp-voiced South Londoner declares on “F**K EVERYONE,” the woozy, bratty first song on her clamorous third album. Lines like that — where bravado and insecurity are locked in an endless …

Trent Reznor usually keeps his highbrow Oscar-winning soundtrack composer side relatively separate from his main gig running Nine Inch Nails. But the soundtrack he and longtime collaborator Atticus Ross have cooked up for TRON: Ares is the first time he’s ever slapped the NIN brand on his film work. The …