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Natalia Catalan’s Die Without Makeup is a jazz-pop amusement park

Natalia Catalan Die Without Makeup

On the Brooklyn musician’s debut album, sounds shrink and stretch, distinctions between digital and analog become wholly irrelevant, recognizable melodies stutter or fizzle out or get replaced as soon as they’re on the precipice of legibility.

Sluice make a diorama of modern American life on Companion

Sluice Companion

The North Carolina band’s third album does a scary good job of intoning the nihilism of a country stripped of its core, reduced to an empty, rotted-out vacuum of empty promises stretching out into infinity.

In LA, Paul McCartney is king

Paul McCartney Fonda

On March 27, Paul McCartney played an intimate set of Beatles, Wings, and solo hits to a crowd of 1,200 on Hollywood Boulevard.

Flamin’ Groovies did more than shake some action on Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies Teenage Head

Time Capsule: This 1971 Mick Jagger-approved blues-rock throwback captures the San Francisco cult band at their rawest and most imaginative.

No, Shaq didn’t ask Sabrina Carpenter for a bottle of her farts

Shaq Sabrina Carpenter

“First of all, ladies, the Diesel got way more game than that,” the NBA Hall of Famer said on his podcast this week, correcting the narrative around his DM history.