Joshua Bote
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Billie Eilish lives up to the hype, Solange celebrates her hometown's musical lineage, plus eight more albums that you need to hear.
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With a nod to Prince and starring two of music's most charismatic women, "Tempo" fully delivers on its dreamed-of collaboration.
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The Akron, Ohio duo built its name off chugging, crunchy rock. Its latest single, "Lo/Hi" marks a return to this sound.
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Cardi B and Bruno Mars team up again to set their late-night flirtation in a taqueria ablaze with choreography and bilingual rap.
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They may not quite be in the year 3000, but "Sucker" nonetheless serves up a grown-up vision of The Jonas Brothers we didn't know we were expecting.
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Ariana Grande's thank u, next shows a musical turning point for the young star. Grande's producers and songwriters share the studio stories that helped make the album.
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The album's lead single "Younger" reads like a mini-epic, and ends on an unexpected, but wholly awesome saxophone outro — the sort of instrumental backing you'd want to commence a hero's journey.
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'7 rings' spins Julie Andrews' original ode to appreciating the little things into a big-spending-as-therapy bop.
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"All Over Now" has the stately, lovely feel of a classic Cranberries single, weighed down and made somber by O'Riordan's repetition of the titular refrain.
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The Internet has a great way of merging pieces of pop culture that may seem disparate — to wit, one Kanye West fan is using scenes from the hit NBC comedy to review the Chicago rapper's discography.