这是“地下丝绒”的第一张专辑，也是摇滚乐历史上的一张划时代的经典之作。从专辑的名称上面可以清 楚地看到，这张专辑的诞生与西方现代艺术史上的伟大人物安迪·沃霍尔是密切相关的。这张“地下丝绒”的处女专辑就是由安迪·沃霍尔担任制作人的，而且专辑的名称也署上了他的大名。
在这张专辑里面，主唱卢·里德以他那干涩、沙哑的犹如破碎的玻璃一样的嗓音将1960年代美国青年对于现实的迷茫、反叛的态度表达得淋漓尽致，同时也对当时的社会现实作出了深刻的揭露。如在《我正在等待那个男人》这首歌里面，讲述的就是一个关于进行非法的海洛因交易的故事，把吸毒作为歌曲的主题，这在他们之前的乐队里面是非常罕见的，因此可以看出他们在音乐表达题材上面的大胆。而《星期天的早晨》这首歌则讲述了一个偏执狂在理想与现实之中挣扎的现实，他就像那个可怜的西西弗斯一样奔波在希望与绝望之间，这可以说是当时青年内心生活的真实写照。在《穿裘皮的维纳斯》这首歌里面，则表达了一个更为离经叛道的主题，那就是“性倒错”，他们以超越道德观的态度表达了自己对于“同性恋”这个当时还是一个禁忌的话题的看法。可见，他们在自己的音乐里面充分的体现了“自由”的精神，而这正是摇滚最为重要的精神财富。
在专辑之中担任了两首歌曲的主唱的女歌手尼柯，曾经主演过安迪·沃霍尔制作的几部电影，由于他的介绍，才成为了“地下丝绒”的一员。尼柯那种冷漠、飘忽，充满着厌世的没落气息的声音深刻地影响了后来无数的女歌手。

日本传奇音乐人/作曲家坂本龙一于3月29日正式发行全新录音室专辑《async》，这也是教授自咽喉癌康复之后的首张专辑，共包含15首歌（第15首歌曲只收录于黑胶中）。坂本龙一称新专辑的构思和录制均在纽约完成，是他来自于对日常对象、雕塑和自然的感悟。
坂本龍一の8年ぶりとなるオリジナル・アルバム!
Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced a new studio album, async, out April 28 via Milan. It’s the Japanese composer’s first studio album since 2012’s Three, with Jaques Morelenbaum and Judy Kang, and his first solo album in 8 years. Sakamoto recorded and conceived of the album in New York, taking inspiration from “everyday objects, sculpture, and nature,” according to a press release.

A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, produced by Nigel Godrich. It was released as a download on 8 May 2016. CD and LP editions will be released on 17 June 2016, followed by a "special edition" in September, containing two additional songs. Soon after its release the album was played in its entirety on BBC Radio 6 Music, presented by Tom Robinson.

The grizzled modern persona of Tom Waits finds new life on Alice, a slow, grave record that explores physical and moral decay with the same harrowing insight of 1992's Bone Machine. Originally written as an opera with his longtime songwriting partner, playwright Kathleen Brennan, the songs on Alice were performed live in a Hamburg theater for 18 months in 1992 and 1993, but were never committed to tape (officially, at least). This studio recording retains a sense of narrative cohesion, giving Waits a set of tormented and bizarre characters that go well with the motley crew he's assembled over the years. It is, in fact, the most consistent record of Waits's career, offering not only a stable train of thought, but a musical approach that, while featuring the same vaudevillian touches that have characterized his work since Swordfishtrombones, finds a voice all its own. Without much percussion to back them up, violins, cellos, and horns dominate the record, bathing Waits's familiar growl in a sly, slow cacophony that sounds like an underwater fugue, the notes like rust on the strings. "Watch Her Disappear," with its sparse, sad pump organ, and the twisted torch song "Reeperbahn" have the smoky café mystery of Edith Piaf by way of Leonard Cohen, recovered from the water-logged tapes in Cole Porter's long-lost dingy. It's a burst of dark, world-weary poetry for lonely Saturday nights, cloudy days on the beach, or long strolls through graveyards. --Matthew Cooke