We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
The whole production is visually stunning, and there’s an illicit energy that comes from putting Gaga-as-Magdalene center stage.
Queerly irresistible in the same way one idly stares at road kill, the album is a masterpiece for those capable of stomaching it.
Break out the eyeliner, turn up the bass.
If you strip What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? of all the hype and expectation, it can be a reasonably enjoyable record.
The Arctic Monkeys’s love affair with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme continues with the official lead single from their upcoming Suck It and See.
The Tindersticks’ mini-tour for their new box set of soundtrack work for Claire Denis films graced Los Angeles Saturday night for a show at the little-known Luckman Fine Arts Complex.
A new solo album from rock legend and beloved quasi-mystical figure Stevie Nicks should be cause for celebration.
Mount Moriah tends toward midtempo songs of prosaic, devastatingly serious narratives that quickly overstay their welcome.
The album is stuffed with the same exuberance that imparted classic status to the lion’s share of the group’s back catalog.
A rhymer no less gifted than T.S. Eliot once said that April is the cruelest month.
Love? isn’t the all-out dance album it could—and should—have been.
w h o k i l l proves that Merrill Garbus isn’t just a brainy artiste with a killer voice
The album is a blend of unadulterated electro-pop, ’80s air rock, New Age synths, and unapologetically romantic teen lyricism.
“Believer” is a goth-tinged, synth-pop ballad that would fit comfortably in rotation alongside songs from a John Hughes movie.
Fleet Foxes find a way to consistently balance the added level of nuance with their natural inclinations toward epic songcraft.
Emmylou Harris remains one of popular music’s most compelling, evocative vocal stylists, and that makes Hard Bargain an easy sell.
Steve Earle has worked hard to perfect his image as one of Nashville’s true outsiders.
Would-be revivalists Holy Ghost! have come a good half-decade too late for this particular resurrection.
Explosions in the Sky’s sixth studio album is business as usual.
Bonkers has always been a hat that Beyoncé has worn well.