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Editor's Picks - Our Favorite Songs and Albums Right Now

Lil Wayne, 'How to Love'
June 3, 11:24 AM ET
| By Jody Rosen
How to love? Lil Wayne has a theory. You grab an acoustic guitar. You toss in some strings. You rap a little, sing a little, whisper sweet nothings: "I admir... | More »
White Denim, 'D'
May 27, 3:58 PM ET
| By Will Hermes
White Denim spit psychedelia, hard blues, boogie, prog rock and fusion riffs like inspired kids weaned on 64GB iPods and 64-ounce Slurpees. The challenge has been feng... | More »
My Morning Jacket, 'Circuital'
May 27, 3:57 PM ET
| By Jon Dolan
Click here to listen to My Morning Jacket's Circuital "I can see potential/Speaking through you/Speaking to you/ From all of heaven's possibility,"&nbs... | More »
Paul McCartney, 'It's So Easy'
May 25, 1:43 PM ET
| By Christian Hoard
Buddy Holly was one of the Beatles' biggest influences, a pioneer whose simple tunes and insane two-year hot streak inspired John Lennon and Paul McCart... | More »
Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way'
May 20, 11:50 AM ET
| By Rob Sheffield
It's one thing to sing about a motorcycle, and it's another to sing about a unicorn. But when you put your motorcycle song and your unicorn song in the same ... | More »
Jai Paul, 'BTSTU (edit)'
May 18, 10:55 AM ET
| By Will Hermes
"Don't fuck with me," coos this 22-year-old in a parched Smokey Robinson falsetto, until a dirty, throbbing synth pulse sweeps in, rendering more nuanced emotion ... | More »
Britney Spears feat. Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha, 'Till the World Ends (The Femme Fatale Remix)'
May 13, 5:32 PM ET
| By Rob Sheffield
Britney's kinkiest and trippiest single since "Toxic," if not ever, becomes a trash-disco Yalta. Co-writer Ke$ha drawls over the slowed-down sleaze-bot groove. Bu... | More »
Santigold feat. Karen O, 'Go'
May 6, 1:06 PM ET
| By Jon Dolan
Hipster siren Santigold has said her new single is about "the new American Dream." If said dream includes Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O getting her Interplanetary... | More »
Fleet Foxes, 'Helplessness Blues'
May 6, 1:06 PM ET
| By David Fricke
Click to listen to the Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues The beauty is skin-deep on the second album by the Pacific Northwest band Fleet Foxes. With its gleam... | More »
Beastie Boys, 'Hot Sauce Committee Part Two'
April 26, 10:42 AM ET
| By Rob Sheffield
Could Beastie Boys possibly give less of a fuck about trying to sound young? In a word, no. As Ad-Rock proudly declares on their excellent new Hot Sauce... | More »
Radiohead, 'Supercollider'
April 26, 10:00 AM ET
| By Rob Sheffield
Sorry, Radiohead fans — the band swears the only sequel you're going to get to The King of Limbs is these tunes. Both are superb electro... | More »
Foo Fighters, 'Wasting Light'
April 21, 5:04 PM ET
| By David Fricke
"Let's change the subject to someone else," Dave Grohl suggests in a brief quiet space, between bursts of high-speed riffing, in "A Matter of Time." If only it wa... | More »
Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi (feat. Jack White), 'Two Against One'
April 21, 5:03 PM ET
| By Will Hermes
Jack White's most ear-grabbing outburst since the end of the White Stripes ain't punk blues. But it's some kinda blues, one of two leaks &mdas... | More »
Tune-Yards, 'WhoKill'
April 21, 5:00 PM ET
| By Jody Rosen

Click to listen to Tune-Yards' WhoKill

There are 10 songs on the second album by Oakland's Merrill Garbus, the 32-year-old singer who records as Tune-Yards. But it seems like there are 200: whokill overflows with hip-hop, reggae, Afrobeat and funky noise freakouts.
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