“Ladies Night,” the third song off Crippling Alcoholism’s epic new LP Camgirl, is the best song the harrowing Boston sextet has put to tape – so far. It’s not the post-punk-inspired group’s most carefully crafted composition to date. Or its darkest. Or most intricate. Or even its best performed. But the tune, somehow the second-shortest offering on the new 15-song outing, embraces the subversiveness Crippling Alcoholism has always toyed with (and, yes, proudly continues to toy with) to tremendous effect. And we don’t just mean the subversiveness of frontman Tony Castrati’s lyrics, which often teeter among the morose, the horrific or, simply, the NC-17-stamped. But the group’s ability to co-opt musical phrasings or timbre, especially from…
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On her debut album Center of Affection, released under the alias 
Fears are very individual, and how one person copes with theirs might not make their struggles evident to others. So while Argentinian artist 
…remastered by Kevin Vanbergen.
The Len Price 3 have been around for over 20 years, long enough to know what works for them and how to deliver it in the studio. Their trademark variety of garage rock filtered through the memories of the first British mod era and the maximum R&B that walked hand in hand with it is bold and brawny on 2025’s Misty Medway Magick.
Deep Country is an anthology-like collection by 
In a recent thought piece on The A.V. Club, Josh Modell ruminated on the dilemma of bands touring endlessly around the hits that made them famous, even as they continue to record new material (or not). He rightfully noted everyone from The Pixies to Van Halen for their habits of living in the past on stage, writing, “I wonder if there’s not a bit of shame in strict nostalgia. Sure, Frank Black has made plenty of new music since the Pixies started playing again, but it hasn’t reached anywhere near the same audience. What does a once-and-maybe-current great songwriter do?”
“I don’t wanna go where I can’t feel a thing,” pines 
Twenty years ago, 
“Ike piano,” an instrumental highlight from Forever, is tasteful, pretty, and elegant. This is not where you expect to find Bassvictim. Henry ‘Ike’ Clateman is most at home behind the decks, detonating 808s and cheap-synthed dubstep in London basement clubs. Here, he’s steeping a piano in delay and letting tiny shoals of melody do their thing. Vocalist Maria Manow should be on stage, striking vape-flavored fervor into the hearts of sweaty moshpits. Now she’s letting amorphous, doe-eyed cello melodies float away like abandoned balloons at a birthday party.
Lê Almeida’s improvisational indie rock troupe 
…includes two new covers and two French-language versions of standout tracks from the original album.
After years of obscurity, Pulp shot to stardom in Britain with 1994’s His ‘n’ Hers. By the time Different Class was released at the end of October 1995, the band, particularly lead singer Jarvis Cocker, were genuine British superstars, with two number two singles and a triumphant last-minute performance at Glastonbury under their belts, as well as one tabloid scandal.
Among its various claims to noteworthiness, Würzburg in northern Bavaria has a historic association with Richard Wagner: he was appointed chorusmaster of the municipal theatre in 1833 and wrote his first performed opera, Die Feen (‘the Fairies’) while living there. The city of 130,000 on the banks of the Main is also the birthplace of Dallas Mavericks power forward Dirk Nowitzki, heralded by many as the great European basketball player of all time.