The twenty-two tracks on this definitive best-of compilation capture the slippery, pliant, ecstatic sound that defined Larry Levan as a producer, DJ and high priest for a club night deemed "Saturday Mass" by its attendees.
After replacing their lead singer, the reborn metal duo Cobalt make their best-ever record, as accessible as it is aggressive, with magnetic hooks, shout-along mantras, and sparkling riffs.
This project's generic-sounding alias obscures the fact that it is a collaboration between Alvin Aronson and Galcher Lustwerk. Their combined sensibilities yield a sumptuous techno LP. These are not so much songs as spatial fields: You enter and walk around, admiring the ingenious architecture.
Babyfather is the name of the latest project by the elusive British musician Dean Blunt. It is a painfully raw, emotionally generous, politically charged, intensely intelligent, sometimes unlistenable album.
A collaboration between noise icon Masami Akita—aka Merzbow—and drummer/pianist Eiko Ishibashi, Kouen Kyoudai is long on pretentious theory but short on fresh musical ideas.
Greil Marcus on the timeless angst of Rihanna’s Anti, an overwhelming wine label that smashes together much of the 20th century, the Rolling Stones’ long history with Donald Trump, and more.
Between the city's roiling punk scene and the birth of house, 1984 marked a pivotal year for Chicago music.
Kamaiyah’s debut mixtape lightly recalls the rap and R&B of the ’90s, but her approachable and assured presence is all her own.
After two albums that struggled with the growing divide between the serious band they seemingly longed to be and the bubblegum punk band listeners want them to be, The Thermals strike the right balance on We Disappear, an album that manages to satisfy both camps.
Father's I'm A Piece of Shit finds the Awful Records head trying to forswear his debauched lifestyle, reckoning with the morning after way too many morning afters.
Margo Price is a country singer signed to Jack White's Third Man Records. On her highly buzzed debut, she emerges as a woman struggling to reclaim her story from the Nashville machine and reset it in old-school honky-tonk tunes.