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The Super Tour is aptly named. The Pet Shop Boys deliver on their classics, new tracks, and an impressive light show.

Nineteen years removed from Theaudience, Bextor's catalog runs six solo albums deep with this year's 'Familia' as proof of her power. Bextor's grasp of pop music shows an awareness that the genre isn't solely beholden to four-on-the-floor ideas; this knowledge has led her to outfox predecessors and lap contemporaries. This overview acts as an introduction to one of the brightest voices in contemporary pop.

Soles of Passion’s ‘Bump Me Up’ exposes listeners to a side very different from their previous release.

Here is a band in full control of their talent and musicianship that had four studio albums that time would ultimately call one of the most amazing beginnings of any band ever, comparable only to the thunderous Black Sabbath’s first four albums.

The Front End balance out different styles and genres within the same track to best convey their growing pains.

Listeners looking for music to inspire a meditation of their own would do well to give ‘The Quiet Hours’ a try.

After countless listens, I feel as if I both know Fela Kuti more than I ever knew any other African artist before, and also how little I appreciated the struggles and injustices that take place across the world in other people’s hometowns or communities. It takes a strong light to shine down on some of the darkest days in the shadow. Thank god Fela Kuti burned as bright as he did for our awareness.

'We Are the Halluci Nation' from A Tribe Called Red will knock your socks off musically, intellectually, and emotionally,

The Blue Poets bring together 1970s classic rock, modern alternative rock, and blues in their self-titled album.

Soulful singer Logan Metz’s ‘The Last Remaining Payphone in L.A.’ is a beautiful composed emotion-laden experience.