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  • Jan 24 Album Reviews

    Lil Baby - WHAM

    Lil Baby - WHAM

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    Blandness remains the one defining quality of Lil Baby's music.

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  • Jan 24 interview

    Spotify Doesn't Want You To See This

    Spotify Doesn't Want You To See This

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    Talking about Spotify being bad with journalist and author Liz Pelly, who just wrote the fantastic book "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist."

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  • Jan 24 Album Reviews

    Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

    Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

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    Bad Bunny's best album yet.

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  • Jan 23 Album Reviews

    Mac Miller - Balloonerism

    Mac Miller - Balloonerism

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    Balloonerism puts Mac Miller's wit, poignancy, and freewheeling creativity on full display; it being able to reach more ears now is only a good thing.

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  • Jan 22 News

    Drake's Lawsuit Is Very Stupid

    Drake's Lawsuit Is Very Stupid

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    Drake federally sues UMG over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us"

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  • Jan 21 Opinion

    Logic, Imagine Dragons, T-Pain, Central Cee | Weekly Track Roundup: 1/19/25

    Logic, Imagine Dragons, T-Pain, Central Cee | Weekly Track Roundup: 1/19/25

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    All right. Hi and hello, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, internet's busiest music nerd. I hope you are doing well. It's time for our weekly track roundup, where I give you guys my thoughts, my feelings, my strongly held beliefs on a bunch of tracks that have

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  • Jan 19 Opinion

    Please Shut Up

    Please Shut Up

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    AI music CEO has some hot takes about musicians making music.

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  • Jan 18 Album Reviews

    Ethel Cain - Perverts

    Ethel Cain - Perverts

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    Ethel Cain tests her mettle in the world of drone and dark ambient on Perverts.

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  • Jan 17 Album Reviews

    SZA - SOS Deluxe: LANA

    SZA - SOS Deluxe: LANA

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    A very good additional project whose best songs go toe-to-toe with the original SOS.

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  • Jan 16 Opinion

    Albums I'm Excited for in 2025

    Albums I'm Excited for in 2025

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    Music is coming.

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