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The Gray In Between is the second album since late '90s screamo innovators Jeromes Dream reunited in 2018.

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Jeromes Dream knits feedback into the tangled seams of 'The Gray In Between'

1:46pm May 11, 2023

by Lars Gotrich

The band recaptures a shredded tension on its second new album after a two-decade hiatus: You feel the crushing effects of the world upon humanity, and the occasional glimpse of beauty.

Proof of Life vastly expand Joy Oladokun's cast of collaborators and enables her to pursue a wider array of sonic ideas.

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Joy Oladokun sings for everyone — especially herself — on 'Proof of Life'

4:23pm May 10, 2023

by Jewly Hight

In Oladokun's new songs, facets of who she is and what she's lived, seen and imagined provide entry points to her homey pop music.

Here are the standout tracks in Ed Sheeran's new album 'Subtract'

4:41pm May 08, 2023

Rolling Stone music critic Maura Johnston reviews Ed Sheeran's new album, Subtract. Fresh off the heels of major copyright win, his newly released music is personal.

The rapper's third album is an introspective record without the self-scrutiny that comes with real reflection.

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On 'Jackman,' Jack Harlow is aggrieved and ready to let everyone hear about it

6:01am May 04, 2023

by Sheldon Pearce

The rapper's third album is a string of prickly songs that spend more time exposing his neuroses than truly analyzing them.

Belgian soprano Gwendoline Blondeel performs as la Folie (madness) in the Opera Lafayette production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's recently completed 18th century opera Io.

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A forgotten opera premieres 280 years late

12:30pm May 03, 2023

by Olivia Hampton

A Jean-Philippe Rameau opera, left unfinished at time of his death and recently completed by a musicologist, gets its premiere 280 years later, with extravagant costumes.

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Al Green's landmark R&B album 'Call Me' turns 50

1:35pm April 28, 2023

by Ken Tucker

Green is widely considered one of the greatest pop singers ever. In 1973, he constructed this superb nine-song album for Hi Records in Memphis, in close collaboration with co-producer Willie Mitchell.

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Collection features almost all the music Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes danced to

2:24pm April 25, 2023

by Lloyd Schwartz

In 1909, the Russian impresario came to Paris and created a sensation with a company he called the Ballets Russes. A new 22-disc set revisits the music of Diaghilev's legendary ballets.

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Walter Smith III sounds right at home on 'return to casual'

2:55pm April 21, 2023

by Kevin Whitehead

Everything's in balance on the tenor saxophonist's new album: Smith's pliable expressive tone is neither too heavy nor too light as he exploits the tension between the composed and the improvised.

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Rappers Danny Brown (left) and JPEGMAFIA embrace their abrasive sides on Scaring the Hoes, a joyously chaotic collaboration glued together by JPEG's collage-like production.

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JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown are here to blow up your function

5:01am April 14, 2023

by Sheldon Pearce

The joyously chaotic rap team-up Scaring the Hoes is less Watch the Throne and more Wedding Crashers: a pair of motormouthed eccentrics running wild trick plays and daring you to stick around.

On her sixth album, Feist's barely adorned honesty is consummate, the result of someone who has lived enough to have a story and worked enough to set it brilliantly to song.

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Feist holds a mirror up to her 'Multitudes'

5:00am April 13, 2023

by Grayson Haver Currin

On her best album to date, Feist mines age and experience, love and loss to shape 12 songs about the hard-earned insights of simply existing.