Madonna’s most focused effort in decades, the album earns its nostalgia by prioritizing it.
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.
The Chain at least has a greater thematic purpose than recent offerings by Joan Osborne, Raul Malo, and Martina McBride.
Jones is never less than a powerhouse, and the Dap Kings match her infectious energy every step of the way.
Brave aims to uphold the standards of individuality that we have, for whatever reason, come to expect from our dance floor divas.
Left to her own devices, Deborah Harry can get quirky and weird to a fault.
Felix Da Housecat obviously lost it at the movies.
When I assured her no one else was listening in on the conversation, she said: “I’ll just choose to believe you.”
Heroes & Thieves finds Vanessa Carlton simply coasting.
Siouxsie has moved from the dissonant sounds of her band’s debut, The Scream, and into pure, intoxicating pop on her solo debut.
Fox News’s Roger Friedman has called for a boycott of Rolling Stone.