Music Reviews

SAULT's work reinforces the sonic connections between global Black communities — from Africa to the Americas — and brings in a multitude of voices to tell an undivided story.

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SAULT's five-album drop deepens its long-standing communal values

11:05am November 26, 2022

by Anupa Mistry

The collective's new music — Today & Tomorrow, AIIR, Earth, 11 and Untitled (God) — suggests divinity void of control or coercion, in order to contemplate our common human needs.

Album Review: 'Tu Historia' by Julieta Venegas

4:25pm November 24, 2022

by Miguel Perez

Julieta Venegas, a legend of Latin American pop music, released her first album in seven years, called "Tu Historia."

GloRilla hardly deviates from her points of emphasis, lyrically, but in energy, she's giving something different at almost every turn.

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GloRilla is finding her voice

2:13pm November 23, 2022

by Lawrence Burney

Though it feels like a mere sample of what's to come, the Memphis rapper's new EP presents her as a singular talent using her instrument as a megaphone for provocation and inspiration.

Daniel Bachman asked friends and family to chronicle the sound of pouring rain and strong winds to craft the personal palette for Almanac Behind.

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In the devastation of climate change, Daniel Bachman captures what's left behind

10:42am November 17, 2022

by Vanessa Ague

In field recordings and fingerstyle guitar, Bachman's diaristic Almanac Behind documents cataclysmic weather as it becomes a larger part of our lives.

Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub captures a transitional moment in Elvin Jones' career.

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'Revival' captures drummer Elvin Jones as a nascent bandleader finding his voice

8:01am November 17, 2022

by Marcus J. Moore

A previously unreleased live recording from 1967 finds the iconic jazz drummer experimenting outside the spotlight in a small New York club, assessing his next steps at a pivotal moment in his career.

Spirituals is Santigold's first album in six years. The artist's career has been defined by an ability to coax apparently disparate influences into cohesion.

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There's still no one like Santigold

9:49am November 15, 2022

by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

On the startlingly direct Spirituals, and in headline-grabbing rebukes of music's trickle-down economy, Santi White is what she's always been: a forward-thinking alternative to pop's here and now.

'Wakanda Forever' hopes to replicate the success of 'Black Panther'

5:07am November 11, 2022

The sequel to the Marvel film Black Panther is in wide release this weekend. Wakanda Forever directly addresses the death of the character played by the late Chadwick Boseman.

Despite the churlishness, or maybe because of it, Drake sounds, for the first time in a long time, like he's actually enjoying rapping.

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Drake and 21 Savage are sore winners on 'Her Loss'

11:46am November 10, 2022

by Sam Hockley-Smith

The duo trades threats and out-of-pocket disses of virtually everyone they've ever encountered on a new album. It's ugly, but it mostly works as a more targeted, focused version of Drake's whole deal.

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How country music allowed Jerry Lee Lewis to vary his wild-man persona

2:06pm November 08, 2022

by Ken Tucker

Lewis came up in rock, but proved his country chops on the 1968 album Another Place, Another Time. The music suited his piano style, and the lyrics fit the emotions he brought to every performance.

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Jazz trio Thumbscrew celebrates 10 years together on 'Multicolored Midnight'

1:38pm November 03, 2022

by Kevin Whitehead

From the beginning, Thumbscrew has had a thing for off-kilter rhythms and shifting accents. This new album is filled with idiosyncratic tunes — music befitting of the idiosyncratic band.

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