The album sounds beamed in from an earlier decade, but it runs deeper than nostalgia.
Josh Ritter is not redefining the way folk music is written or performed, he just writes and performs good folk songs.
The album is a bright, beautifully wrapped package filled with nothing but styrofoam packing peanuts.
The Vines ultimately come off as nothing more than a proficient Nirvana cover band.
Yes, Virginia is not quite as strong an effort as the Dresden Dolls’s self-titled debut, but it boasts some terrific songs.
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together is a terrific collection of thoughtful, energetic rock songs.
Drum’s Not Dead is an album of sounds, not songs.
If The Red Krayola frontman Mayo Thompson should be lauded for anything, it’s persistence.
Electric Rodeo is a hot mess.
Meds is, if nothing else, less appalling than talentless electroclash pottymouth Peaches’s damn near unlistenable Fatherfucker.
No one here should consider quitting their day job, but there’s ample reason to look forward to Loose Fur’s next go-round.
Ambition alone doesn’t make the kind of statement that the album’s scope and structure demands.
Friends of Built to Spill, both old and new, take comfort in the familiar.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have emerged with a second full-length album that, like its predecessor, captures a band unbeholden to anyone’s expectations.
Opening explosively after its intro track, the album is divided into two distinct yet similar sections.
One can’t help but feel like the album is a calculated attempt at regaining the audience Pink lost with Try This.
Brun’s songs are a throwback to traditional folk while at the same time keeping one foot firmly planted in the no-longer-neo neo-folk movement.
Showtunes will definitely leave you with a tummy ache.
Keys to the World demonstrates that Ashcroft is finally hitting his stride as a solo artist.
Prince revisits the past on 3121, reinventing his previous glories rather than creating something completely new.
Any group that’s hung around for three decades with the same exact line-up deserves respect.