Blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype from the press at the time, The Strokes may or may not be completely arty and calculated, but that doesn't prevent Is This It from being an exciting, compulsively listenable debut. Newsly app http://Newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

The final album with Jim Morrison in the lineup is by far their most blues-oriented, and the singer's poetic ardor is undiminished, with cuts that rate among their finest and most disturbing work. The seven-minute title track was a car-cruising classic that celebrated both the glamour and seediness of Los Angeles; the other long cut, the brooding, jazzy "Riders on the Storm," was the group at its most melodic and ominous. A worthy finale from the original quartet. Newsly app http://Newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

Only the Strong Survive may be the first time Bruce Springsteen has recorded an album dedicated to soul and R&B, yet those styles have always been present in his music, welling up in the rhythms and outlook of the E Street Band at their most jubilant. Here Springsteen goes it alone - with varying results. Newsly app http://Newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

The soul at the heart of Bloodline Maintenance functions as the music that bonds generations, allowing the singer/songwriter to delve into blues, doo wop, and hip-hop, all in a manner that feels heartfelt, not flashy. The result is one of Harper's richer records: it's impossible to separate the music from the message, which makes it all the more resonant. Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

Weather Alive nestles into a comparatively hushed, atmospheric blend of acoustic and electronic timbres that's meticulous and indistinct at once. Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

The Car is in every way a sequel to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the 2018 album that found Alex Turner pushing Arctic Monkeys in the direction his side project Last Shadow Puppets pursued. Louche and lugubrious, The Car is rife with signifiers of a stylish, seedy past: wah-wah guitars, swelling cinematic strings, tinkling ivories, and analog synths. But What's missing? Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

There's no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream. Newsly app https://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

Throughout his career as an R&B revivalist, Eli "Paperboy" Reed has centered his attention on the soul made in the back half of the 1960s and the early years of the '70s -- He now takes on the Merle Haggard songbook.

Nearly three decades into his career, Gallagher retains a slight edge to his voice; he remains a rock & roll star, the kind who turns generic material into something worth a listen.

Merging wiry post-punk minimalism with a dry and sometimes abstract wit, Leeds based Yard Act have built a devoted audience. Their full-length debut, Overload, gets the RBR.Music teams attention this episode.