In this week's slate of Rolling Stone reviews, Rob Sheffield raves about Wild Flag's debut album, which he says "tops anyone's wildest hopes" for the supergroup featuring members of Sleater-Kinney and Helium and punches "about fucking time buttons" for anyone into bad-ass guitar rock. Also, Will Hermes praises Strange Mercy, the "busily inventive" third album by St. Vincent, David Fricke gives a thumbs up to Primus' first new record in over a decade, and Jon Dolan digs the second album by the British duo Slow Club, which "bridges the twee whimsy of Belle and Sebastian and the garage-y primacy of early Yeah Yeah Yeahs."

ALBUMS

Wild Flag - Wild Flag (stream one song)

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (stream one song)

Primus - Green Naugahyde (stream one song)

Lady Antebellum - Own the Night (stream one song)

Slow Club - Paradise (stream one song)

Katy B - On A Mission (stream one song)

Das Racist - Relax (stream one song)

Neon Indian - Era Extrana (stream one song)

The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time (stream full album)

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare (stream one song)

Bush - The Sea of Memories (stream one song)

Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing (stream one song)

Trombone Shorty - For True (stream one song)

Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix in the West (reissue) (stream one song)

Jimi Hendrix - Winterland (reissue) (stream one song)

SONGS

Ryan Adams "Lucky Now" (stream)

Deer Tick "Miss K" (stream)

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