…The expanded tracklist appends rare live versions of tracks like “Fat Lip,” “All She’s Got,” “Crazy Amanda Bunkface,” “Machine Gun,” and “What We’re All About”.
It would be a mistake to view Sum 41 as just another second-rate band cashing in on the early-’00s punk-pop boom, even if it did recruit Jerry Finn to produce All Killer No Filler. Just as Finn had done for both blink-182 and Green Day, he charges Sum 41’s punk-pop with a razor-sharp edge, the sort of dynamic in-your-face sound that helps this music cross over to MTV and radio so well. Besides the notable production, a lot of credit should go to the band as well. Its songwriting is obviously more diverse here than it was a year earlier on its debut album,…
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The newest offering from pianist/composer 
Snow Patrol’s 
Sydney’s 
The Strokes’ stock is pretty high in 2026, definitely higher than it was in 2016, and maybe even 2006. This year marks the 25th anniversary of their classic debut, Is This It? Their recent tour, the band’s first in 20 years, saw them light up a multigenerational audience of young olds and old youngs. Their standing isn’t only based on nostalgia either: Though the last Strokes album, 2020’s The New Abnormal, got a little lost in the Covid malaise, its standout hit, “The Adults Are Talking,” has as many Spotify streams as “Last Nite.” Meanwhile, the biggest indie band around, Geese, is undeniably post-post-Strokes, even if the band members were still in their strollers back when Julian, Albert, Fab, Nick, and Nikolai owned the night. Not a bad legacy to keep rolling into…
If not for Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark — Alvin Schwartz’s infamous anthology series of folk stories that have haunted grade school book fairs for decades — 
If there were a collective appreciation of dramatic album intros of the year, then Babylon, the latest offering from 
DeForrest Brown Jr. was born on a military base in Tampa and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where his grandmother worked at the jail where Martin Luther King was held. He played trumpet and tuba in school marching ensembles, moved to New York in 2013 to write music criticism for Mixmag, Resident Advisor, and Artforum, and eventually co-founded the Make Techno Black Again campaign, which started as a meme, became a clothing line, and hardened into a serious political position. His 2022 book Assembling a Black Counter Culture spent 432 pages arguing that the music industry built a global economy around a Black art form and systematically cut Black people out of it. His four Planet Mu albums, from 
Attention should definitely be given to the remarkable sound design achieved by ambient-electronic artist 
At the age of 72, 
For listeners drawn to the quietly adventurous music of Aldous Harding, Cate Le Bon or Jessica Pratt, Half Truth, by California songwriter Avery Hellman, who performs as 
Cellist and composer 
…Bonus CD featuring 4 extra tracks.
Roberto Carlos Lange and Fabi Reyna feel like kindred spirits. Long before they met two summers ago, they were making music — as