Scotland’s belovedly louche dance-rock heroes invoke Bowie’s “Fashion” and Talking Heads’ “Houses in Motion” on the title-track single here, which scans as both old-school MDMA clubbing ode and a meta-narrative about making music for tweakers. Ah, youth! It’s a return to form the band never really lost, and if the …
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There’s been a bounty of archival Stones releases this year – notably Ladies & Gentleman: The Rolling Stones, the fierce 1972 Fort Worth, Texas, show documented in the film of the same name, Keith Richards’ and Mick Taylor’s guns blazing. But this set takes the prize for ear-cocking: 32 tracks, …
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Demi Lovato is at her pop-princess best when her majestic wail takes over, as the high points of the singer’s sixth album attest. The title track channels the brassy clamor of her 2015 smash “Confident” into maximum-overdrive R&B; “Sexy Dirty Love” throws back to the robo-funk era, with Lovato using …
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This rap-rock supergroup – featuring Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord, Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, and Cypress Hill’s B-Real – revved up old PE and RATM classics on their debut 2016 EP. The band’s first full-length contains 12 hardrocking lefty diatribes against …
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