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Dead Neanderthals + Nick Millevoi – Dietary Restrictions (2015)

The Dead Neanderthals’ thrillingly explorative new album with Nick Millevoi is one to start your heart — to un-relax, un-settle and un-fetter.

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Florence + the Machine, “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” (2015): One Track Mind

A lot seems to happen, but also not much. Is this simply an album intro? A taste of a more free-form direction Florence + the Machine might go?

Toto, "Child's Anthem" from Toto (1978): Toto Tuesdays

Toto, “Child’s Anthem” from Toto (1978): Toto Tuesdays

“Child’s Anthem” kicks off Toto’s perfectly constructed, musically all-encompassing debut — as well as Preston Frazier’s new feature, Toto Tuesdays.

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Ben Wolfe – The Whisperer (2015)

Ben Wolfe’s Posi-Tone debut ‘The Whisperer’ is supple, solid mainstream jazz full of quality Wolfe originals and strong support from his backing band.

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Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys, By Viv Albertine (2014): Books

More than a punk-rock memoir, Viv Albertine’s book tells the story of a woman who remained true to herself through many reinventions.

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Hall and Oates have developed an unspoken kinship: ‘It’s so weird’

Outside of tour commitments, Hall and Oates rarely, if ever, speak. Find out why John Oates is OK with that.

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Alabama Shakes, “Don’t Wanna Fight” from Sound and Color (2015): One Track Mind

Lean and hurtful, anthemic and damaged, Alabama Shakes’ “Don’t Wanna Fight” pulls no punches — not musically, not emotionally.

Phil Collins' Face Value launched his solo career, and reset Genesis

Phil Collins’ Face Value launched his solo career, and reset Genesis

Released on February 9, 1981, ‘Face Value’ is a time capsule of everything that made Phil Collins into Phil Collins, and maybe the best thing he ever did.

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Leslie Johnson – The Leslie Johnson Project (2015)

The Leslie Johnson Project finds this formidable Texas talent making passionate, funky and forward-leaning music firmly rooted in jazz and funk.

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Ringo Starr promises a very collaborative 2015: ‘I love hanging out with musicians’

As a forthcoming album and tour attest, Ringo Starr is still getting a little help from his friends some 45 years after the Beatles’ ugly breakup.