There is a specific kind of cold that burns, like dry ice pressed against a fingertip, and that paradoxical sensation pervaded my entire weekend spent listening to the latest output from CMD.EXE, their debut full-length album "love.language.model". This collaboration between human musicians and machine intelligence hits with the weight of a pressurized cabin decompressing. It sits in that bruised, purple twilight between Electronic Rock...

To take on a song so woven into the cultural fabric requires a certain nerve, but Annika Bellamy’s new single, a remake of "Come and Get Your Love," feels less like a cover and more like an inheritance. With her uncle, T-Bone Bellamy, having been the lightning-rod guitarist for Redbone, and founding member Pat Vegas sanctioning this version, the track arrives with a heavy,...