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Album Review: Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

There’s a pivotal moment at the end of Carson McCullers’ novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter where...

Lucas Martins·May 23, 2024

Billie Eilish doesn’t make calm music. Quiet maybe, low-tempo a lot of the time, but all of it...

There’s humor in the fact that Ani DiFranco named her newest album Unprecedented Sh!t. Exclamation point notwithstanding, it...

How did we get here? Time was, a new Ghostface Killah album was cause for celebration. He may...

Rob Hakimian·May 16, 2024

Keeley Forsyth’s third album The Hollow immediately reintroduces us to her wondrous vocal instrument, a flat, smooth and...

Ray Finlayson·May 15, 2024

If Kee Avil‘s debut album Crease sounded like some chthonic beast unearthing itself from the ground, then its...

Lucas Martins·May 13, 2024

In 2013, Lady Gaga was coming off of the Fame and Born This Way albums with a level...

Rob Hakimian·May 10, 2024

Since coming off tour for his last album, 2018’s breakthrough Freedom, Damon McMahon aka Amen Dunes has suffered...

More than a decade into releasing music under his own name, Ben Chatwin is unquestionably making the exact...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s 17th century painting “Judith slaying Holofernes” is a powerful, scary work. A first version was painted...