We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
For Chico Fellini, the use of rhythm is a key element to their charisma.
The album is inept in its contemptuous abuse of almost every basic element of song craft and performance.
The album brings DOOM, warts and all, back into our lives, and shouldn’t that be enough?
Hazards of Love personifies potentially workable songs eaten away by overwhelmingly ill-conceived ambition.
Jones may have a newfound credit as a successful playwright, but fans have little to worry about the Harlem rapper going artistic or high-minded.
Hilson needs to do much more than pick fights with Beyoncé to justify her transition from hook girl to solo star.
Carolina often comes across as a strident stab at the mainstream commercial acceptance that has thus far eluded the singer-songwriter.
The album sustains a remarkable degree of structural tension over the course of its brief song cycle.
With their latest, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs full-on metamorphose.
Naked Willie is an act of historical revisionism.
The words are flatter, the music is more generically attractive, and maybe we’re all getting a little too old for this club.
Never has there been a more blatant case of false advertising than the title of Madeleine Peyroux’s fifth album, Bare Bones.
Free’s production team Dave Warrin, Tim Kvasnosky, and Miguel Migs are, unfortunately, addicted to butta.
If every decade needs its Seattle scene, then Glasgow might just fit today’s bill.
Love vs. Money hardly shies away from the attitude that The-Dream has entered the realm of pop royalty.
Too much of Face Control sounds like the unfinished blueprint of a much better album.
Cursive, Omaha’s little band that could, did.
The album confirms that Earle has far more going for him than just his lineage.
As Neko Case’s brand of macabre, modern American gothic music has become more obtuse and difficult, she’s only seen her popularity expand.
Wrath continues the use of the Dimebag Darrell-inspired riffs and swinging rhythms found on their last album.