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Boyz II Men Twenty (MSM Music Group/Benchmark Entertainment) Legendary smoothness, super steamy romantic ballads and an unmistakable uptown swing made the four-part [...]

Smashing Pumpkins Gish [Deluxe Edition] (Virgin) Regardless of Billy Corgan’s actions in resurrecting The Smashing Pumpkins over the past few years, he’s [...]

The Maccabees Given to the Wild (Fiction Records) Recently, the British newspaper The Guardian ran an article asking if indie rock was [...]

Meshell Ndegeocell Weather (Naïve) The ninth studio release from singer-songwriter, producer, and performer Meshell Ndegeocello is an intimate room of alternative-pop sounds. [...]

Craig Finn Clear Heart Full Eyes (Vagrant Records) With his band, the Hold Steady, lead singer Craig Finn created five full-length albums, [...]

Weezer Live in Del Mar, California There’s nothing worse than a live album that just focuses on singles and refuses to touch [...]

Coldplay Mylo Xyloto (EMI) Mylo Xyloto, the fifth studio album from the British quartet Coldplay treads on familiar territory, which can be [...]

This Mortal Coil This Mortal Coil [Box Set] (4AD) There are so few record labels whose releases have as definitive a sound [...]

Cass McCombs Humor Risk (Domino Recording Co.) Few musicians manage to put out albums in consecutive years, but with Humor Risk, Cass [...]