Daily Newsletter, June 3, 2024

Let’s share a moment of silence today for late, great Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who would have been 83 years old today. Then, after the silence, crank up your favourite Watts performance and play some air drums in his honour. And finally, after that, check out the 430-plus albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, […]

After they peaked, most of these 1990s songs were promptly forgotten or should have been.

NPR Music's Ann Powers and Lars Gotrich are your guides to this week's new releases.Featured albums:• Arooj Aftab, 'Night Reign'• Shaboozey, 'Where I've Been, isn't Where I'm Going'• Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter, 'Hear the Children Sing The Evidence'Other notable albums out May 31:• Richard Thompson, 'Ship To Shore'• Dos Monos, 'Dos Atomos'• Anna Tivel, 'Living Thing'• Beak>, '>>>>'• Swamp Dogg, 'Blackgrass'• Thou, 'Umbilical'• Chris Housman, 'Blueneck'• Psychic Temple, 'Doggie Paddlin' Thru the Cosmic Consciousness'• John Muq, 'Flying Away'• Robin Holcomb, 'One Way or Another, Vol. 2'

For fans of saxophones, trombones, and power drones.

Here are tQ's favourite albums and tracks released in May 2024, from Beak > to Broadcast, and from Eric Chenaux to Ex-Easter Island Head

100%: The Parisian musician’s upcoming debut album, Sad Lovers and Giants , is a work of pure passion featuring poignant break-up anthems and rage-fuelled, club-ready tracks.

While there is no new album released in June by Taylor Swift, your favorite musical artist might have an album dropping. Here is who is doing what.

Here are the best albums of May 2024, as selected by Consequence writers, editors, and staff members. See which albums are our staff favorites.

The Beatles were masters of the standalone single - here are ten examples of incredible songs that weren't included on a Beatles studio album.

Exploring the incredible, inventive quality of Maria Rita Stumpf, the vocalist who incorporated electronica with Amazonian rhythms on 1988's 'Brasileira'.

Hang out with Billy Gibbons in Texas, meet up with country outlaws in Nashville, cruise the Blues Highway down to New Orleans, catch some classic shows at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park and revisit punk’s glory days in England — next week’s reading list will take you on a road trip without making you […]

Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) on a coin-operated typewriter that charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes, and he spent a total of $9.80, how many hours did it take Ray to write his story?” (If you’re doing the math, that’s great, but you might be in the wrong class.) Bradbury’s composition of Fahrenheit 451 demonstrates two of the prolific writer’s most insistent demands among his many practical nuggets of writing advice: 1.