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Editor's Picks - Our Favorite Songs and Albums Right Now
  • Tom Waits, 'Bad As Me'
    October 25, 3:46 PM ET
    | By Will Hermes

    "With my coat and my hat/I say goodbye to all that," snarls Tom Waits on "Chicago," hopping a train rhythm of horns, harmonica, banjo and electric guitars. The opener... | More »

  • florence and the machine shake it out

    Florence and the Machine, 'Shake It Out'
    October 24, 10:57 AM ET
    | By Will Hermes

    Florence Welch continues her superhero morph from arty rocker to pop diva with this mighty single. "All of the ghouls come out to play/And every demon wants his poun... | More »

  • Rick Ross, 'I Love My Bitches'
    October 18, 1:19 PM ET
    | By Jody Rosen

    Bitches aren't the only things that Rick Ross loves. For one thing, there's alliteration: "Bottles, Beamers, brand-new Benzes/Barbies, ballerinas and Britn... | More »

  • R.E.M., 'We All Go Back to Where We Belong'
    October 18, 1:15 PM ET
    | By Jon Dolan

    Click to listen to R.E.M.'s 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong' The last R.E.M. song (for now?), from the band's upcoming greatest-hits LP, sounds... | More »

  • Wavves, 'Life Sux'
    October 11, 4:47 PM ET
    | By Stacey Anderson

    Low-fi brat Nathan Williams' new EP hinges on the chipper single "I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl," a typically concise blast of thick surf-pop guitars, laconically dis... | More »

  • Deer Tick, 'Divine Providence'
    October 11, 4:46 PM ET
    | By Will Hermes

    Click to listen to Deer Tick's 'Main Street' If Deer Tick's first couple of albums got the Rhode Island band branded as an alt-country act, their... | More »

  • Bjork, 'Biophilia'
    October 11, 4:43 PM ET
    | By David Fricke

    Bjork sings it like a sorceress sharing a recipe: "Nuance makes heat." That line in "Mutual Core" neatly captures the effect of the eerie details that suffuse her ei... | More »

  • Olivia Tremor Control, 'The Game You Play Is in Your Head, Parts 1, 2 & 3'
    September 27, 4:59 PM ET
    | By Simon Vozick-Levinson

    The reunited Georgia psych-pop crew's first single since the Nineties is a candy-colored daydream in three acts, totaling five minutes of exhilarating melodies ... | More »

  • MGMT, 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything'
    September 27, 4:56 PM ET
    | By Will Hermes

    For their version of this aching, uncharacteristically folksy ballad by post-punk goths Bauhaus, MGMT stir in enough dubby echo and effects to give it their own wooz... | More »

  • Girls, 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost'
    September 27, 4:54 PM ET
    | By Jon Dolan

    A girl can do funny things to a boy: like make him write a love- wracked space-rock epic called "Vomit" that sounds like My Morning Jacket with a gun in their mouth. T... | More »

  • Mastodon, 'The Hunter'
    September 27, 4:51 PM ET
    | By Chuck Eddy

    Over their first four albums, these Georgia sludgethrashers grew increasingly conceptual, centering lyrics around classical elements (fire, water, earth) while expan... | More »

  • Wilco, 'The Whole Love'
    September 27, 4:49 PM ET
    | By Jon Dolan

    Wilco often specialize in uncomfortable comfort music: Seventies-style melodies submerged in dark, abstract sounds and cloudy emotions. But their eighth disc manages... | More »

  • The Horrible Crowes, 'Elsie'
    September 13, 1:26 PM ET
    | By J. Edward Keyes

    Click to listen to The Horrible Crowes' album 'Elsie' On this side project, Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon trades his main band's Springste... | More »

  • Sleeper Agent, 'Celebrasion'
    September 13, 1:24 PM ET
    | By Jon Dolan

    Click to listen to Sleeper Agent's 'Get It Daddy' "We gonna have a ball/But we ain't got no need for chains," Sleeper Agent shout on their debut.... | More »

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