Things are slowing down a bit in the music world -- but don’t tell that to the Zac Brown Band, Olivia Rodrigo, Depeche Mode, Sting, Scorpions or any of the others starting the last month of the year with some fresh releases...

Album of the Week -- Zac Brown Band, “Love & Fear” (Master of None) : Twenty years after its debut the genre-straddling through country centric outfit delivers its ninth studio album, and first in more than four years. The group says it’s exploring “two sides of the same truth” on these 13 tracks, with Dolly Parton, Marcus King and Snoop Dogg joining the party -- the latter on the single “Let It Run.”

Depeche Mode, “Depeche Mode: M” and “Memento Mori: Mexico City” (Columbia): Two version of this document from the duo’s three-night Foro Sol stadium stand during Se

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