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Carpe Diem, With Care

On How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 3, Belle and Sebastian remind listeners that "everything is now."

February 21, 2018

David Duchovny Rocks

Fox Mulder is crushing the dad-jam scene.

February 15, 2018

Man of the Woods Is Misguided Red-State Kitsch

Justin Timberlake seems to have free-associated most of these songs while flipping through an L.L. Bean mailer.

February 12, 2018

How to Solve Our Human Problems, Part 2 Stretches the Meaning of “Love”

The band's second EP in a three-part series explores family, relationships to God, friendship, self-love, and, of course, romance.

February 8, 2018

Tune-Yards Is Addressing What It Is to Be a “Colonizer”

I can feel you creep into my private life grapples with the inherent racism of whiteness.

January 30, 2018

Mania Makes Me Feel Like a Spring Breaker

Thnks fr th mmrs, Fall Out Boy.

January 29, 2018

On Belle and Sebastian’s Solutions to Our Human Problems

The band has succeeded in providing insights that might make the world better, one listener at a time.

January 24, 2018

Porches’ The House Feels Like Home

Listen to it while you shower, dance to it in the mirror, melt into it while melting into your extra-large puffer jacket on the E train.

January 22, 2018

Songs of Experience Tells the Same Old U2 Stories

We don’t need any more broad, generalized ideas about how to make our declining world a better place.

January 22, 2018

Circuit des Yeux’s Magical, Spiritual Progress

Each song on Reaching for Indigo is its own little self-contained movie.

January 18, 2018

Rubba Band Business as Usual

Thoughts on the classic Juicy J flow—and sometimes tired politics—on the rapper's new record.

January 11, 2018

I Wanted to Believe in Morrissey (Or His Music, at Least)

With Low in High School, Moz commits sacrilege against himself.

December 13, 2017