The singer has yet to discover a sound or sensibility that truly distinguishes her.
The album is another strong effort from one of country’s greatest and under-appreciated talents.
Shooter Jennings’s The Wolf is derivative as hell and a long way from good.
Willis has four kids at home, and with Translated from Love, she was ready to put on her dancing shoes and have a little fun.
On a hit-to-miss scale, Blackout scores well, and its hotness quotient is remarkably high.
Juvenile’s first single to garner major attention outside New Orleans and its accompanying music video are minor works of devastating magic.
Throughout, Young seems to be questioning the same rock ‘n’ roll tropes that he fondly reminisced about on Harvest Moon.
Kenna Zemedkun is a pop artist with something to prove.
Carnival Ride simply doesn’t offer anything for the unconverted in terms of Underwood’s growth either as a vocalist or as an artist.
Perhaps solo Pollock can gain the fame that the Delgados never got. She deserves it.
I’ll grant you that Magic is uneven, but I cannot admit that it is anything other than constantly captivating.
With Oblivion, Underworld has cashed in the hard-fought credibility they earned through an until-now consistent career.
It would be easy for someone like Bettye LaVette to allow her backstory to do most of the heavy lifting in the current phase of her career.
The album gives plenty of reasons to expect that the second decade of Rimes’s career will have even greater impact than the first.
There’s no getting past the fact that the oft-delayed Make Sure They See My Face feels like a compromised work.
Chase This Light is also a return to form for the band in terms of their ingratiating power-pop.
As with almost every Radiohead album, there are moments of brilliance, inventiveness, and surprise.
This music makes me glad to be alive, and grateful that there’s a Richard Hawley on this earth.
The last time I saw Harvey perform live she had just released an album half-dedicated to a city whose tallest buildings still stood in the financial district.
Jones is never less than a powerhouse, and the Dap Kings match her infectious energy every step of the way.
The Chain at least has a greater thematic purpose than recent offerings by Joan Osborne, Raul Malo, and Martina McBride.