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Here Are Check This Out!'s Ten Favorite Albums of 2021

Here Are My 50 Favorite Albums of 2021, Part 4: Numbers 20 - 11

Here Are My 50 Favorite Albums of 2021, Part 3: Numbers 30 - 21

Here Are My 50 Favorite Albums of 2021, Part 2: Numbers 40-31

Here Are My 50 Favorite Albums of 2021, Part 1: Numbers 50-41

Announcing Curated Playlists from Check This Out!

21 EPs for 2021 Part 2: Here Are My Ten Favorite Shortplayers of the Year

21 EPs for 2021 Part 1: Here Are My Favorite Shortplayers of the Year

Catching Up With Ian West As He Embarks On His Second Act

Highway Butterfly: Neal Casal's Songbook Finally Gets Its Due in a Posthumous Album of Carefully Curated Covers

'Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free' Gives An Intimate Look At His Legendary 'Wildflowers' Album

Nation of Language Dive Deeper Into Their Synth Pop Influences on 'A Way Forward'

There's a Treasure Trove of Great New Records Including Helado Negro, Marissa Nadler, Bat Fangs, and More

The War on Drugs Continue Their Classic Rock-Tinged Era With 'I Don't Live Here Anymore'

Ten Songs That Will Breathe Fresh Life Into Your Halloween Mixtape

My Morning Jacket Bring the Good Time Vibes On Their Self-Titled Reset

Many Great Indie Classics Are Celebrating Ten Year Anniversaries This Month, But Future Islands' On The Water Is The One You Need to Revisit

Sungazer Run Through a Genre Defying Mixtape of Technical Wizardry on their Debut Album, Perihelion

Three EPs You Need to Hear Now: Big Thief, Triptides, and Swim School

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine Look to Classic Films for Inspiration on Their Haunting Album, A Beginner's Mind

A Live Music Filled Week with 311 and Japanese Breakfast

Strand of Oaks Reaches for the Cosmos on In Heaven

Talking with Sam Forrest About His New Elliott Smith-Inspired Record, Aeroplane Days

I've Been Sleeping On The Felice Brothers For Too Long and You Shouldn't Make the Same Mistake

Mini Trees Confronts Time's Inevitability on Her Debut LP, Always in Motion

Here's to Norm: Revisiting the 1995 Alternative Charts When Better Than Ezra Hit Number One

Colleen Green Plays Things Cool in Her Welcomed Return

By Taking the Recording Process on the Road, R.E.M. Made Their Best Album in New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Motorists Look to College Rock's Jangly Past on Surrounded, Their Excellent Debut Album

3 Fresh Albums to Explore Over the Long Labor Day Weekend

On Their Latest Album Glow On, Turnstile Refuse to Be Limited By Genre Boundaries

If The Ballad of Dood & Jaunita is Indeed Sturgill Simpson's Last Solo Record, the Everchanging Country Ace is Going Out On a High Note

Telethon Is Keepin' The Summer Alive with Swim Out Past the Breakers

Reevaluating Old Favorites: Does Pearl Jam's No Code Still Have Its Adolescent Shine 25 Years Later?

The Killers Sleepwalk Through Pressure Machine, Their Latest Attempt to Capture Springsteen Magic

Happy Tenth Anniversary to The War On Drugs Slave Ambient

Foxing Takes a Poppy Turn and Put It All Together on Draw Down the Moon

Thanks, But I'm Good on the Return of Limp Bizkit

Twin Shadow's Triumphant Return

It's Time For an EP Round-Up with Barry Can't Swim, Ben Redell Band, and Pronoun

Putting the Dream in Siamese Dream: Fruit Bats Revisit the Classic 1993 Smashing Pumpkins Album

Here Are The 2021 Mercury Prize Noms

St. Lenox and the Rare Modern 'Indie' Album

A Conversation With Generous Gods, Whose Debut Digital 45 is Out Today

Do You Have Tickets to Any Shows This Summer?

Daymaker, the Studio Debut from Flamingosis is Here to Chill Out Your Summer

This is All Donnie Darko's Fault: Hollywood Needs to Get Over 'Dark' Covers of Your Favorite Retro Hits

Rose City Band & Lucy Dacus Have Made the Must-Hear Albums in an Absolutely Stacked Week

Mid-Year Round-Up: Jazz Up Your Summer with Dave Koz & Cory Wong and Garage A Trois

Music for Sunday Mornings: Kings of Convenience Return from a Long Absence with Peace or Love

Mid-Year Round-Up: Your Summer Playlist is Incomplete Without Hotel Pools and SelloRekt/LA Dreams

Never Ones to Go More Than a Few Months Without a New Record, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Have Released Butterfly 3000, Their Career-Best

Mid-Year Round Up - Genesis Owusu Kicks Off June's "Albums You May Have Missed" Series

Japanese Breakfast Returns with Jubilee, One of the Most Anticipated Albums of the Year

The Lost Art of the Pop Movie Soundtrack: A Look Back At Some of the Biggest Hits from the Summer Blockbuster Season of 1996

Bachelor is the New Project from Jay Som and Palehound That You Need to Hear Now

The Linda Lindas Are the Feel Good Story of the Summer So Far

It's About Time Everyone Knows Chai Are Fun

A Little Something For Everyone: Pardoner, Jayda G, and Julianna Hatfield Close Out One of the Strongest Release Weeks of the Year

On Daddy's Home, St. Vincent Confirms She's Now One of Pop's Premiere Acts

Jeff Rosenstock Has Me Asking: If Everything 90s is Hot Right Now, Why Are We Afraid of a Ska Revival?

On Their Second Album Before Mid-Year, Weezer Get It Right with Van Weezer

A Dollar Price Increase Almost Kept Us From Hearing Tom Petty's Classic Album Hard Promises, Released 40 Years Ago This Week

On Their Second Stint and Tenth Album, The Coral Have Made One of the Year's Best Records

Music to My Ears: the Return of Live Music is Looking... Pretty Darn Good?

Let's Switch Things Up with Mitch Murder's New Synthwave Masterpiece

After Surviving Altamont and the End of the Hippie Era, the Rolling Stones Released Sticky Fingers 50 Years Ago Today

Sharon Van Etten Brings Along Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams, IDLES, and Others to Celebrate 'Epic Ten'

Here are 2 EPs I’m Digging (and You Should Too)

Introducing... The Pink Stones

My Morning Jacket Found Their Sound on At Dawn, Released 20 Years Ago This Week

I Am Once Again Asking You to Listen to Ryley Walker

Celebrate Opening Day With These 10 Superb Walk-Up Songs

Real Estate's 'Half a Human' is All Spring

Here Are 10 Rock Beers to Quench Your Weekend Thirst, Ranked

Mint Julep Return with the Sparkling 'Deep and Dreamless'

Deth Rali Shows Us His 'Light Levels'

Israel Nash's 'Topaz' is This Week's Must Hear Album

Music History and Gentrification Clash at the John Coltrane House

New Music Tuesday: Fruit Bats 'The Pet Parade'

The March 2001 Billboard Hot 100 Chart Was a Mess

New Music Tuesday: Ol' Burger Beats & Vuyo; King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard

5 Absurd Music Legal Moments

New Music Tuesday: Mogwai 'As the Love Continues'

When Prog Went Pop: Rush's 'Moving Pictures' Turns 40

New Music Tuesday: Anika Pyle

2021 Rock Hall Noms, Ranked

New Music Tuesday: Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo

15 Years Later, J Dilla's 'Donuts' Continues to Inspire

Why Weezer's Orchestra Experiment Doesn't Work

A New Reason to Love Bandcamp

New Music Tuesday: Here Lies Man and Yu Su

What is your go to “weekend song”?

10 Great Music-Themed Bernie Memes

New Music Tuesday: Midnight Sister and Pearl Charles

A Round of Applause for Mexican Summer

Viagra Boys Grow Up

NIVA and the Hope of "Save Our Stages"