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AllMusic Staff Pick Coldplay X&Y Timeless singles like "Fix You," the pummeling "White Shadows" and mind-bending "Twisted Logic" are reminders that, at the core, they are (and remain) a rock band.

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Pulp's first album in 24 years contemplates the difference between aging and maturity with their expected wit and surprising tenderness.

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AllMusic Staff Pick The Electric Prunes Too Much to Dream: Original Group Recordings Reprise 1966-1967 The otherworldly guitar sounds that kicked off the Electric Prunes' 1966 smash were the clarion call of a band that brilliantly merged psychedelic exploration with the sneer of garage rock.

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On their first long-player in five years, innovative instrumental nonet @budosband.bsky.social showcases a refined, dynamic expansion of their sound.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Off Broadway On Off Broadway fused taut new wave arrangements with punchy power pop melodies not unlike their Illinois contemporaries Cheap Trick. Still, the band's catchy 1979 debut is worth revisiting for standouts like "Stay in Time" and "Full Moon Turn My Head Around."

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U.K. octet caroline's intoxicating sophomore LP runs the gamut from spare experimental folk to crushing noise.

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AllMusic Staff Pick The Tubes The Tubes Produced by Al Kooper, this debut (released 50 years ago this month) by the notorious San Francisco group is best known for the blazing anthem "White Punks on Dope."

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Classical highlights from May include Prokofiev's string quartets by the Quatuor Danel (pictured); a blend of classical music and spirituals by harpist Ashley Jackson; and Beatrice Rana's return to the music of Bach with four keyboard concertos.

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A chaotic yet introspective fusion of shoegaze, trip-hop, and industrial pop, containing some of Yeule's strongest hooks.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Charles Tolliver Impact Trumpeter/flügelhornist Charles Tolliver often straddled the line between the lyricism of hard bop and the adventurous nature of the avant-garde. Released in 1976, Impact contained a stimulating progressive edge within an energetic large band.

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With his lyrical prowess on full display, the National singer Matt Berninger takes stock of those who make us who we are on a bittersweet sophomore LP.

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AllMusic Staff Pick The Who The Who Sell Out As the Who go about the business of firing and hiring drummers while planning yet another farewell tour in 2025, let us savor one of their finest celebrations of youth culture in the 1960s and the siren song of AM radio.

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Sonic chameleon Ty Segall jumps a level to try "classic rocker with strings and horns" on for size and finds the fit to be perfect.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Primus Pork Soda Once audiences got a chance to hear Primus' instantly recognizable sound, driven by Les Claypool's bizarrely virtuosic bass riffs, their audience grew. It was enough to make their second major-label album one of the strangest records to debut in the Top Ten.

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Turning drastically from the cold electronica of his last solo album, former Low member Alan Sparhawk teams up with rootsy bluegrass group Trampled by Turtles for this spirited effort.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Sarah Vaughan Sarah Vaughan Vaughan is arguably in the best voice of her career here, pausing and lingering over notes on the standards "April in Paris," "Jim," and "Lullaby of Birdland."

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On their potent eighth set, alt-rock stalwarts @garbage.com channel hope and optimism as chaos swirls around them.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump Picking up where their Signal to Snow Ratio EP left off, Grandaddy's wittily named second album, released 25 years ago today, upgrades the group's wry, country-tinged rock with electronic flourishes that run through the album like fiber-optic lines.

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A charming set of tender and progressive R&B from Silas Short that takes cues from early-'70s soul, '90s neo-soul, and other sounds between those eras.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Fool on the Hill Having hit upon another smash formula -- cover versions of pop/rock hits backed by lavish strings, a simplified bossa nova rhythm, and the leader's piano comping -- Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 produced two more chart-busting singles.

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We're certainly not a sports website, but the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, Jim Irsay, had a passion for collecting guitars, artifacts, and objects of pop culture fascination. Irsay left behind an archive of incredible pieces of history. AllMusic looks at some notable items in the collection.

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A stylistically sophisticated and emotionally resonant sophomore album from Joe Jonas.

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Rick Derringer, 1947-2025 A sought-after producer and respected rock and blues guitarist, both as a solo artist and with several groups, Rick Derringer gave us the bubblegum anthem "Hang On Sloopy" and the FM staple "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo." www.allmusic.com/artist/rick-...

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AllMusic Staff Pick Paul McCartney & Wings Venus and Mars Although slightly less well received than its predecessor, Venus and Mars, released 50 years ago today, still reached #1 in the album charts in the US, UK, and in several other countries.

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Putting aside disco in favor of a jumble of styles including hip-hop and big beat, Cola Boyy's posthumous album is joyous and inspiring.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Loudness Thunder in the East Knowing that their early sound might prove a tad too heavy and complex for American audiences, the foursome rose to the occasion by dispensing their most melodic compositions ever.

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Embracing the role of storyteller, the singer/songwriter Robert Forster adds jangling indie rock to his sound thanks to Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn and John.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Bee Gees Main Course It may sound silly to call the 12th album by a group with an 8-year string of gold records behind them a "breakthrough," but that's what Main Course, released 50 years ago this month, was. The group's first disco album marked a huge change in their sound.

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Seven years after their debut collaboration, Keb' Mo' & Taj Mahal are back with a collection of laid-back, organic blues, jazz, and Americana.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Tammy Wynette One of a Kind The team of Wynette and Billy Sherrill was incomparable. In 1977 at the dawn of the urban drugstore cowboy phenomenon, Wynette was still making classic countrypolitan records with Sherrill. This is of those classy classic records they made together.

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Legendary duo Sparks delivers more witty satire that spans symphonic mayhem, taut synth rock, creeping existential dread, and real pathos.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP On The Marshall Mathers LP, released 25 years ago today, Eminem is all about blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, humor and horror, satire and documentary. It is a fairly brilliant expansion of his debut.

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@stereolabgroop.bsky.social's first album in 15 years is a dynamic, uplifting call to action that pushes their legacy forward.

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AllMusic Staff Pick A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory While most of the players in the jazz-rap movement never quite escaped the pasted-on qualities of their vintage samples, Tribe created one of the closest and most brilliant fusions of jazz atmosphere and hip-hop attitude ever recorded.

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Celebrating their tenth year, Cleveland-based Afrofuturists Mourning [A] BLKstar honor the living and dead while railing against inequality and brutality.

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AllMusic Staff Pick The Beach Boys All Summer Long The best pre-1965 Beach Boys album featured their brilliant number one single "I Get Around," as well as other standout cuts in the beautifully sad "Wendy," "Little Honda," and their remake of the late-'50s doo wop classic "Hushabye."

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During her performances at Coachella, Charli xcx encouraged fans to keep the fire of Brat Summer burning and hinted at a revival with possible successors to the throne. Here are 7 artists to help you recreate or reminisce about Brat Summer in 2025.

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81-year-old legend Charlie Musselwhite brings his touring band into the studio for the first time and delivers 11 original autobiographical and road songs.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five A guitar-less power trio debuting in the middle of the alt-rock '90s, Ben Folds Five arrived fully-formed with a smart and original brand of piano-led power pop that was as potent as it was fun.

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Friendship offers an album full of blue-collar imagery and ambling, dissonant arrangements, an artful expression of depression penned by Dan Wriggins following a breakup.

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A joyous sequel to José James' 2024 studio LP, this is artfully split between inspired cover versions and solid originals.

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AllMusic Staff Pick blondshell.bsky.social Blondshell With driven, whistling guitar riffs, Teitelbaum’s cutting vocals, and percussion that’s a little rough around the edges, Blondshell’s eponymous debut album brings a taste of grunge back to indie rock.

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Public Enemy leader Chuck D's first Def Jam-issued solo effort revisits the Bomb Squad's chaotic, experimental production style.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again Oops!...I Did It Again, released 25 years ago today, has the same combination of sweetly sentimental ballads and endearingly gaudy dance-pop that made ...Baby One More Time.

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tuneyards.bsky.social deliver a soulful, funky, and uplifting antidote to the fractured state of life in the 2020s.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch's third album, Time (The Revelator), finds the folk vocalist and musician shifting her attention from achingly beautiful mountain ballads to achingly beautiful pop/rock ballads.

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A companion to the Sly Stone documentary from questlove.bsky.social, this works as an alternate history with a majority of previously unreleased mixes, edits, and versions.

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AllMusic Staff Pick DJ Funk Booty House Anthems DJ Funk will always be remembered as the pioneer of ghetto house, a lo-fi sound born in Chicago whose influence has spread far and wide -- Daft Punk even namechecked Funk as an inspiration on their first album.

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A grim yet fascinating work from rap visionary billy woods, inspired by horror and sci-fi but drawing narratives from real-life experience.

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AllMusic Staff Pick Miles Davis Blue Moods Recorded for Charles Mingus' Debut label in 1955, Blue Moods is an excellent example of cool jazz. However, not all of the musicians who join Davis on this album were full-time members of jazz's cool school.

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