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  1. album review
    Adele 25 Review: Pop’s Old Soul Looks ForwardThough Adele’s still leaning on the past, 25’s production and arrangements lay a more exciting groundwork for her extraordinary voice.
  2. radio vulture
    Purpose Makes You Miss the Old Justin BieberApologetic is not Justin’s best look. 
  3. radio vulture
    Hailee Steinfeld’s Haiz EP Is Fascinating For All the Wrong ReasonsAn investigation into a very strange pop career.
  4. album review
    Grimes’s Art Angels Is Superhero Music for IntrovertsIt’s nothing short of a punch to the jaw.
  5. radio vulture
    Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, and the Pop-Idol ArcThe former child stars have both arrived at their “Break Free” moment. 
  6. radio vulture
    Lady Gaga’s Latest Transgression: Acting NormalThe woman who made pop weird is now going to the middle. Or her version of it.
  7. obits
    Lindsay Zoladz on Chantal Akerman: Films on How to Be a Woman AloneAkerman’s films are largely about space, time, and, I’d venture to say, a particularly feminine sense of isolation, displacement, and ambivalence.
  8. music
    Album Review: Janet Jackson’s UnbreakableIt’s easily her best album since All for You — and probably the best album by a veteran pop star this year.
  9. radio vulture
    Drake, Fetty Wap, and the Politics of the Co-SignWho are Drake’s co-signs really meant to help?
  10. movies
    Carey Mulligan Takes a Radical Turn in SuffragetteThe erstwhile ingénue’s uncompromisingly political role is unlike any she’s ever tackled.
  11. radio vulture
    Lana Del Rey’s Honeymoon Is a Sonic SedativeBallads to swipe to. 
  12. concert review
    Concert Review: Madonna’s Rebel Heart Takes MSGBitch, she’s Madonna. 
  13. radio vulture
    Miley Cyrus’s Dead Petz Is Hard to Like, or Even EndureSongs meander and build to nothing. Melodies sag. Themes (weed; sex; the universe, man) recur so frequently that it’s often hard to distinguish one track from the next.
  14. vmas 2015
    These Were the Truman Show VMAsNothing was real, except Bieber’s tears, Nicki Minaj’s swipes at Miley, and Kanye’s speech.
  15. album review
    The Weeknd Overreaches for Pop Grandeur on Beauty Behind the MadnessAbel Tesfaye can’t feel his limits, either.
  16. fall preview 2015
    This Fall, Will Grimes Make a Break for Honest-to-God Pop Stardom?After four years and a series of feints, the internet darling returns IRL.
  17. fall preview 2015
    What Our Critics Are Really Looking Forward to This FallTheir top five picks for the season.
  18. radio vulture
    Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion Is Better Than 1989Rapturous!
  19. music
    Chvrches Is Waging War on Second-Album Nerves and Online Trolls“It’s nice to squash people’s expectations.”
  20. music
    Dr. Dre’s Compton Is Shockingly GoodAs far as savvily timed, corporate-tie-in-slash-comeback-albums go, the vividly panoramic Compton makes Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail look like a stick-figure drawing.
  21. music
    One Direction Are Our Manic Pixie Dream Boy BandPerhaps no boy band in history has been a more direct and aerodynamic vessel for young-girl exuberance than One Direction.
  22. On End of the Tour, Trainwreck, and JournalismThe weirdness of the writer-subject relationship.
  23. The Best Albums of 2015 (So Far)Next-generation rap, throwback rock, and a jerk-off joke taken (semi-) seriously.
  24. Live Review: U2 Embrace the Underdog Role at Madison Square GardenBono is bleach-blond now, by the way. 
  25. Wilco Resists Comfort With New Album Star WarsLike vintage Wilco, Star Wars is prickly in all the right places. 
  26. radio vulture
    On Their Third Album, Tame Impala Achieve Psych-Rock NirvanaThe sublime Currents proves that Kevin Parker has realized how much more he can do with less.
  27. Lady Gaga’s Latest Transgression: Acting NormalThe woman who made pop weird is now going to the middle. Or her version of it.
  28. concert review
    Live Review: Taylor Swift Is the Cheer Captain of the UniverseThe Jumbotron was made for her. 
  29. Nina Simone’s Impossible — But Necessary — DemandsA new doc revisits the singer’s legacy. 
  30. close reads
    A History of True Detective’s New Theme Song, ‘Nevermind’A laconic, husky-throated dirge that hangs over the opening credits like a heavy fog.
  31. The Trainwreck Comedy Tour Explains Amy SchumerShe’s speaking truthfully from the inside of success.
  32. radio vulture
    Disco Godfather Giorgio Moroder Goes Back to the Future on Déjà VuThe disco futurist returns with his first solo album in 30 years.
  33. governors ball 2015
    The Highs and Lows of the 2015 Governors Ball Music FestivalDrake’s boner faces, Lana Del Rey’s shortcomings, and more.
  34. radio vulture
    Florence & the Machine’s Transitional New AlbumMore harp, please. 
  35. The Enigmatic PC Music Is Ready for Real LifeAn interview with the secretive U.K. label’s A.G. Cook and Hannah Diamond.
  36. Miley Cyrus Gleefully Makes ’Em Squirm at the Adult Swim Upfronts PartyFreaking out the suits at the Adult Swim upfronts party. 
  37. art
    Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to DieWhy is it such a perennial youthful rite of passage to misunderstand, to underestimate, even to hate Yoko Ono?
  38. radio vulture
    Blur’s The Magic Whip Is a Weird, Lovely Return to FormThe Magic Whip isn’t as immediate as the band’s most inspired work, but over repeated listens, I’ve found it blooms into something immersive, complex, and understatedly lovely.
  39. Montage of Heck and the Impossible Kurt CobainThere’s a gap between “authorized” and absolutely true.
  40. profile
    The Post-Gender, Post-Genre Charm of Indie Music’s Newest Star Shamir Bailey is the best possible version of a 20-year-old.
  41. music
    Everybody ‘Pulling a Beyoncé’ Has Given Me Surprise-Album FatigueFollowing pop music right now is exhausting.
  42. dig it!
    The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on His 8 Favorite Wrestling Promo VideosJohn Darnielle is a man of many enthusiasms.
  43. mad men
    ‘Is That All There Is?’ Is a Very Mad Men SongIn all of television history, has there ever been a musical cue more inevitable?
  44. radio vulture
    Who Did the Best Talking Heads Cover at Last Night’s David Byrne Tribute?It was a night of yelpy singing, jittery dancing, and at least one comically oversize suit. 
  45. radio vulture
    Album Review: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly Is Awe-InspiringIt’s the most grandiose rap record since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
  46. radio vulture
    Madonna Sounds Current — and Empty — on Rebel HeartThe album’s beats sound like they’re having more fun than she is. 
  47. Secret Girl: Decoding Kim Gordon’s Eternal CoolDigging into the memoir of an indie-rock sphinx.
  48. radio vulture
    Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late Is a Soulless TriumphDrake sounds tougher, but not better. 
  49. Did Empire Kind of Dis Chris Brown Last Night?“When you write a song about how much you hate women, it makes you look like a little bitch.”
  50. grammys
    Kanye Was Right: Beyoncé Was Robbed at the GrammysLeave it to the Grammys — the only awards show that can make an upset more boring than the widely predicted outcome.
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