We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
Do not buy Cut and Run, but consider downloading “Faith, You Changed Your Name.”
There are quite a few moons on Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!, the 14th Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds studio album.
The polished arrangements from producers Victoria Shaw and Paul Worley emphasize the group’s pop smarts.
Despite the band’s name and psychedelic iconography, Love was no flower-power act.
The album’s hookless, driving songs about broken relationships and drunken melancholia fit nicely into Peter Katis’s indie-rock framework.
E=MC² does reach a solution but not before Mariah bends over backward to show her work.
Twenty Five is essentially an update of 1998’s Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael.
Last Tycoon gives room for Morén to explore ideas outside the sound of his principal group.
The songs here may not have the skeezy authenticity of the Velvet Underground’s 7-minute opus “Heroin,” but they’re still unsettling.
Cut Copy teams up to shake some skinny asses with the less famous half of storied production team the DFA, Tim Goldsworthy.
The album is endlessly enjoyable as a music-nerd exercise in spotting precise points of influence and nifty production tricks.
Few artists have capitalized on country music’s conservatism as well as George Strait, regarded by many as the genre’s modern-day king.
There are only a few different types of songs on Crystal Castles’s intermittently exciting self-titled debut.
Give credit to Tapes ‘n Tapes for braving the backlash with not a small amount of swagger and even a few doses of anger.
Most frequently compared to the Louvin Brothers, the Gibsons earn such lofty comparisons on their fourth album.
This is the quintessential statement on the crushing pressures of being a Kabbalist pop star at 49.
The band lands somewhere between the Scottish banjo-twee of Boy Least Likely To and the bland folk rock of the Bodeans.
It’s tempting to greet Mountain Battles with a jaded indie-rock kid’s petulant shrugging and chorus of “whatever.” Don’t.
For a side project nearly an hour in length, Consolers of the Lonely is quite an accomplishment.
By reveling in pastiche, London electronic duo Groove Armada lives up to expectations on their fifth studio album.