On the album, Gray struggles to reach and sustain notes that should be comfortably within her range.
The album is a nostalgia kick, but for what?
It’s the rare album that values vocal talent and production prowess with equal measure.
Mika’s Life In Cartoon Motion is the album Robbie Williams has been trying to make for years…almost.
To say that Melankton is a hodgepodge of sounds and influences would be an understatement.
Thankfully, this season of Real Time has largely done away with the often unfunny introductory sketches.
The album’s songs might be apocryphal, but they’re certainly relevant to what’s happening in the world outside.
Winehouse and company aren’t just expert mood-setters or crafty reconstructionists.
Luckily, “Candyman” delivers the best video from Back to Basics so far.
As long as drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll, and war continue to drive the human race, though, there will always be a place for the Doors.
Splenda may be derivative, but it sure is tasty—even if it leaves a bad aftertaste.
The album’s unsexiness says more about the mentality of the early ’90s than any other musical document of its time.
One of the best soundtracks of the last decade just got a little bit better.
The album is so majestic that it remains with you like a cherished memory…even if it is a fuzzy memory.
I’ve always liked the Dixie Chicks, if not for their music then for their outspokenness and refusal to play by Nashville’s rules.
This isn’t exactly a fully-formed concept album, at least not in the traditional sense.
Monta could very well be the rock literati’s next big find.
We all have them. Songs we adore that radio manages to murder with heavy rotation.
The group has expanded their palette and broadened their strokes on the misleadingly titled Writer’s Block.
Learn to Sing Like a Star might be Hersh’s most coherent, consistently listenable record since Hips and Makers.