Because the all-ages followers flooding the aisles of David Byrne’s 2025 Radio Metropolis Music Corridor present made clear, Speaking Heads have one of the crucial enduring catalogs in fashionable American rock music. Naive Melodies, a brand new compilation on BBE curated by Drew McFadden, goals to make the group’s often-undersung Afro-diasporic influences as indelible because the “Psycho Killer” refrain. Consistent with McFadden’s 2021 David Bowie tribute Fashionable Love, Naive Melodies gathers a set of progressive Black artists to reframe Speaking Heads’ catalog within the lineage of the soul, gospel, Latin, and non secular jazz they drew from. The 18-track album reimagines favorites like “As soon as in a Lifetime,” “Highway To Nowhere,” and “Burning Down the Home” by means of the eyes of Liv.e, Aja Monet, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Theo Croker, and extra.
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Gesaffelstein: Enter The Gamma [Columbia]
French producer Gesaffelstein is a connoisseur of big-room electro, and because the style has crept again into trend, his fingerprints have appeared on main pop information from Charli XCX (BRAT) and Woman Gaga (MAYHEM). His first dwell album, Enter The Gamma, goals to bottle that crowd-roaring power for this broader viewers. The brand new album compiles 14 recordings from his 2024 world tour of the identical title, swerving away from the rock and synth-pop of 2024’s GAMMA again to driving four-on-the-floor.
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Megadeth: Megadeth [Tradecraft]
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