Preston Jones

Eminem’s grip on the zeitgeist is less firm on the over-long Revival than it was on the freestyle cut “The Storm.”

In the end, the way the film transforms characters into mouthpieces for misguided hot takes is a bizarre miscalculation.

Glasshouse wastes little time demonstrating Ware’s sultry, soulful, and quietly joyous brand of pop.

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry at pop music’s steadfast refusal to let talented vocalists simply sing, free from recording studio trickery and being straitjacketed into sounds…

It wouldn’t be going too far out on a limb to say that ’70s mush-rock masters America are the last group I’d expect to release an album drenched in…

The tribute album is a curious beast. Most bands that gamely tackle covering their idols in song inevitably achieve one of two results: embarrassment or passionate karaoke. Rare is the…

The piercing ache of Hurricane Katrina continues to reverberate in searing works of art such as Spike Lee’s damning When The Levees Broke and the mad-as-hell U2/Green Day cover…

The cynic in me can’t help but suspect that Diana Ross is only releasing I Love You, a wholly lifeless collection of love songs, to capture a bit of that…

Of Montreal mastermind Kevin Barnes is some kind of unhinged, tragically little-known genius.

The Beatles were primal, peerless artists, a group whose work has colored the ensuing decades’ culture and sound. As such, the Fab Four’s decade’s worth of records are often viewed…

So much ink has been spilled about Jay-Z’s “comeback” that you’d be forgiven if you spin Kingdom Come expecting a blinding light of salvation to explode from your speakers. Breathless…

Oklahoma native JJ Cale was a household name before many people even knew who he was, thanks mostly to Eric Clapton’s smash ’70s covers of Cale’s “Cocaine” and “After…

The seams are starting to show in Jack Black’s shtick: layering admittedly creative profanity into nonsensical rants pitched at ear-bleeding volume was funny early on, but now it’s beginning to…

Democracy isn’t always a good idea. It was admirable of Dave Matthews Band to open up the song selection process for The Best of What’s Around, Vol. 1 to its almost…

If there were ever a better argument for Oasis being a singles band, Stop The Clocks would pretty definitively prove that Liam and Noel Gallagher are much more adept (and…

You have to feel a little twinge of sympathy for Canadian quartet Our Lady Peace: Despite 1999’s Happiness Is Not A Fish You Can Catch (the foursome’s third full-length and…

Eric Schlosser’s devastating, meticulously researched muckraker Fast Food Nation—Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for the 21st century—builds slowly, adding one damning fact after another to an ever-mounting pile. P…

Lady Sovereign (Lady Sov if you’re nasty; Louise Harman if you’re her parents) arrives on American shores behind a mountain of hype taller than she is. Pint-sized but big-mouthed, this…

As 2006 winds down, Lloyd Cole must be feeling like he’s having a pretty great year: twee indie darlings Camera Obscura paid homage to the singer-songwriter in their terrifically ornate s…

Philly-based singer-songwriter Amos Lee made a modest splash with his self-titled 2005 debut, joining the ranks of such soul-splashed vocalists as James Hunter, Raul Midon, and Ben Harper. Amos Lee was…