Catch up on the month's best songs, albums, and moments with new music by Justin Timberlake, David Bowie, Tegan and Sara, A$AP Rocky, and more.
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David Bowie, "Where Are We Now?"
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There's never been a worse time in history to keep a secret. Yet there we all were on the morning of Jan. 8, David Bowie's 66th birthday, listening to…a new David Bowie song. From a new David Bowie album, The Next Day, due in March. There had been no rumors, no leaks, no rumors of leaks; after years of Garboesque invisibility, during which his health may or may not have been dire, this would maybe be the Bowie-related development we'd have expected least. And there it was. Melancholy as fuck, "Where Are We Now?" is a piano-driven ballad about wandering through Berlin, site of perhaps his most creatively fertile period in the late '70s, and maybe not doing a whole lot to dissuade from the notion that Bowie has had reason to grow rueful and reflective in his golden years. Given the fractious state of pop, it's hard to recall a moment when a song was greeted with such universal joy and gratitude. Is it a canon-worthy return to form? A point of entry for the uninitiated? Have we been listening to it on repeat ever since? Does it have to matter? —Steve Kandell
Paramore, "Now"
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