Hæven Is a Place on Ear7h: The Cults of Lana Del Rey and Tool
A closer look at two titles from the most memorable Album Release Day since the Kanye/50 Cent face-off
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Author: Dan Weiss
ALBUMS: Ezra Koenig Is Genteel in the Hour of Chaos
Ahead of tonight’s big show at Madison Square Garden, let Dan Weiss remind you how Vampire Weekend impart their coolheaded calm onto those who can’t afford same. This has always been their job.
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21 Songs Chronicling Spongebob’s Rap Takeover
Hip-Hop has been about that Bikini Bottom life for 20 years now
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Ten Albums From the First Half of 2019 That Need More Love
From hip-hop to punk rock to pure pop to avant electronics, there is quite a lot the critics missed in the last six months
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Miley Cyrus Through the Looking Glass
With her Black Mirror episode, pop’s most unapologetic skin-shedder returns to the medium that made her a star
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The Pleasure Is All Lizzo’s
Succumb to the Minneapolis powerhouse’s pop dominance
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Don’t Let the Perfect Jenny Lewis Be the Enemy of the Good Jenny Lewis
Is the former Rilo Kiley singer’s fourth solo album too manicured for its own gain?
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If Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Is Weezer the Most Successful Band of All-Time?
As their blue debut turns 25, its time to ponder if these dudes really are The Greatest Band Who Ever Lived ™
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MF Doom’s Born Like This Turns 10
A decade later, the villain man still never runs with krills in his hand
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Richard D. James At The End Of The 20th Century
ΔFex tΣi[N]’s “Σi[[NdσΣ1i cx∈r” t∈ r[N]s 2σ
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These Strange Steps
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ It’s Blitz at 10
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Safe To Breathe
The complexity of romance sparked the creative fervor of Sleater-Kinney’s classic 1999 LP The Hot Rock
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His Big Chance
Prince Paul’s A Prince Among Thieves helped lay the groundwork for hip-hop’s Broadway arrival
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Bad Meets Evil
20 Years of Eminem’s Slim Shady
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A Fraction of the Sum
Built to Spill’s Keep It Like a Secret at 20
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