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Allow Harry Styles to watch the world burn. Or at least, revel in the minutiae of that possibility—an inescapable freeze-frame of ricocheted bullets, a gentle chin tilt towards the smog-filled sky (“things are pretty good[…]

With new albums from Kendrick Lamar and The Chainsmokers on the horizon, and offerings from Blink-182, Calvin Harris, Cheat Codes, and Logic, there were plenty of noteworthy songs out this past week from old artists[…]