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What's your favorite track on Don Toliver's 'OCTANE'?

Friko's new album 'Something Worth Waiting For' is out April 24.

Broken Social Scene are releasing their new album 'Remember The Humans' on May 8.

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New Music Friday: Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone "It’s easily Blackwater Holylight’s best-produced record to date, making their densely layered slabs of noise sound downright heavenly." - Spectrum Culture

New Music Friday: URNE - Setting Fire To The Sky "Urne have succeeded by not attempting to do more of the same, and have instead made their biggest, boldest, most universal-sounding album to date." - Metal Hammer

New Music Friday: Joyce Manor - I Used to Go to This Bar "The Los Angeles pop-punk trio spends its seventh album wrestling with nostalgia, finding nuance and emotional complexity in their everyday grievances." @pitchfork.com

New Music Friday: Don Toliver - OCTANE "Few figures are able to blend such atmospheric, devoutly underground ideas with pop finesse. Don Toliver’s ‘Octane’ represents a thrilling, turbo-charged race to the finish." @clashmusic.com

New Music Friday: By Storm - My Ghosts Go Ghost "What gives it staying power is its emotional clarity; its deep wells of feeling that slice apart the digi-chaos like beams of light through a swollen sky." @clashmusic.com

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Jessie Ware's new album 'Superbloom' is out April 10.

Thundercat's new album 'Distracted' is out April 3rd.

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New Music Friday: Poppy - Empty Hands "When she’s got something that lights her on fire, she’s unstoppable, and this is how she’s been able to write possibly her best songs yet." @kerrang.com

New Music Friday: Megadeth - Megadeth "Tuneful yet overlong, Dave Mustaine and co’s final album is a recap of Megadeth’s strengths, flaws and familiar grudges." @theguardian.com

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James Blake Trying Times 📅March 13th

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Denzel Curry's new group The Scythe will release their debut project, Strictly 4 The Scythe, on March 6th.

Courtney Barnett is set to release her new album, Creature of Habit, on March 27th.

Snail Mail's new album, Ricochet, is out March 27th.

What's your favorite track on Don't Be Dumb?

New Music Friday: Madison Beer - locket "An icon-in-waiting no more, she’s ready for her moment on ‘Locket’." @rollingstone.com

New Music Friday: A$AP Rocky - Don't Be Dumb "A charismatic, playful return, but it's no slam dunk." @theguardian.com

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New Music Friday: The Cribs - Selling a Vibe "Crammed with heart and hooks, Selling A Vibe is a welcome reminder that no one does it quite like The Cribs." @hotpress.com

New Music Friday: Dry Cleaning - Secret Love "The South Londoners’ third album reaffirms their underlying ethos that the ordinary is worth mining for the extraordinary." @pastemagazine.bsky.social

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Blackstar, David Bowie's final album, was released on this day 10 years ago.

Bruno Mars is dropping his new album The Romantic on February 27.

Robyn is set to release her new album, Sexistential, on March 27.

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