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We pick 9 of the best Record Store Day 2025 releases – Sam Fender, De La Soul, Waxahatchee and more

All of our choice cuts from Record Store Day 2025, including the likes of De La Soul, Sam Fender and a very special movie soundtrack.

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The 20 best songs of 2024

Here are the year’s most outstanding tracks – from Fontaines DC to Beyoncé via Kendrick Lamar – as voted for by 26 Guardian music writers

The Guardian - UK

AP's top songs of 2024: 'Texas Hold 'Em,' 'Not Like Us,' 'Igual Que Un Ángel' and more

Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman has chosen 10 of the best songs of 2024

The Independent UK

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AP's top albums of 2024: Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Mk.gee and more

Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman has chosen 10 of the best albums of 2024

The Independent UK

MJ Lenderman review – a shooting star from the American south

Showcasing new album Manning Fireworks, the North Carolina indie rising star seals his reputation as a slacker guitar hero who knows exactly what he’s doing

The Guardian - UK

Out of office: what the Wallpaper editors have been doing this week

A week of jetsetting has seen the editors in Tokyo, Milan, Vienna, Miami, New York and drinking Guinness with Jonathan Anderson in London

Wallpaper

MJ Lenderman review – songs of solace and goofy poetry from lauded indie darling

The North Carolina musician and his band comfort the crowd with a set of smart, beguiling songs played with skill and camaraderie

The Guardian - UK

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MJ Lenderman and the Wind at The Garage review: this unassuming cult folk hero brought humour and heartbreak

4/5 The singer-songwriter, who is having a moment, was on classic deadpan form

Evening Standard

MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks review – joyously weird alt-Americana

(Featuring possibly his best track yet, the North Carolina guitarist-songwriter goes to the sparse and seamy side on this worthy successor to Boat Songs

The Guardian - UK

“More proof of the rude health guitar music is in right now”: August 2024 Guitar World editors' picks

Our rundown of the finest fretboard cuts from the past four weeks is here – and with it comes new efforts from fast-rising guitar stars, a potentially generational indie rock group, Eric Clapton's favorite contemporary player and much more

Guitar World

Pixar, Catholic shame, and urine-drinking podcast bros: the mixed-up rock of MJ Lenderman

Known for turns with hit US indie acts Wednesday and Waxahatchee, the singer-guitarist explains how his songs – full of sad sacks and losers – get to the heart of masculinity

The Guardian - UK

This 2024 indie folk album is soundtracking my summer, and it should be on your playlist too

Waxahatchee's latest album is a beautiful slice of alternative Americana/indie-folk goodness, perfect for hazy summer days (or dreary rainy days) with no end.

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“When I’m in the studio I’m playing most of the instruments. Onstage, it’s a different thing”: Alt-country guitarist du jour MJ Lenderman shares his tone secrets and explains why there’s life in the live album yet

With a blazing (not to mention “fluid like the wind”) band behind him, indie rock’s leading overdrive purveyor takes his best one-man-band material to wild new places

Guitar World

Golden Plains 2024: a scorching sweet 16 for Australia’s best festival

The Streets, Regurgitator, King Stingray and RVG delivered memorable performances as complete strangers took care of one another amid the heatwave

The Guardian - AU

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Guitar World

Black Keys, Black Crowes and the next in line for Mastodon’s mind-expanding metal crown: this week’s essential guitar tracks

The must-hear licks, riffs, solos and six-string moments from BIG|BRAVE, Bring Me The Horizon, Dead Poet Society, Bodega, Slift, Waxahatchee, and more

The Guardian - UK

Pop, drill and inhuman metalcore: new music to get excited about in 2024

Eight fresh acts to check out, from the astonishing flows of Brixton rapper Cristale to the southern rock of MJ Lenderman

WhatToWatch

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: next episode, guests and everything we know about the talk show

CBS's late night entry, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is back. Here is everything that you need to know about the show.

Guitar World

How Drive-By Truckers, Rat-augmented lap steels and electric shocks shaped the alt-country sprawl of Wednesday's Rat Saw God

Led by the two-guitar and lap/pedal-steel attack of Karly Hartzman, MJ Lenderman and Xandy Chelmis, Wednesday have crafted one of the most engrossing rock albums of 2023

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The best pop music albums of 2022

If 2022 was a year of at least trying to return to normalcy, part of that process for music makers was putting all they had to say out there, releasing the pent up accumulation of ideas accrued over two years of pandemic living.

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