Nick Rubin

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Album reviews: Quarantunes

More than ever, we’re treating pop music functionally—we choose and use tunes to get us going in the morning; to set...

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corncob RANDY (Foil)  From the holy-shit desk: Heather Mease found her way from Philadelphia to Charlottesville via...

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MC Yallah X Debmaster Kubali (Hakuna Kulala) The most frenetic moment of Kubali comes right at the top, like an...

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Green-House Six Songs for Invisible Gardens (Leaving) Beginning an album with pooling water sounds is a risky venture...

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Here’s another set of worthwhile reissues I missed along the way in 2019. (Not included: The Beatles’ brilliant...

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Throughout the year, I reviewed some reissues (notably Gene Clark’s magisterial No Other and Prince’s colossal 1999)....

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Not sure why, but in 2019 I spent a lot of time with a relatively few new albums, so apologies to the stuff I didn’t...

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Leonard Cohen Thanks for the Dance (Sony) Recorded during the same sessions as You Want It Darker, which was released...

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Miranda Lambert Wildcard (Sony) Glowing with sanitized professionalism, performed hot messiness, and branded shout...

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Velveteen Rabbit Velveteen Rabbit (Hozac) Rising from the ashes of NYC power poppers The Jeanies, Velveteen Rabbit do...