The album sounds beamed in from an earlier decade, but it runs deeper than nostalgia.
The Life Pursuit is not only a career-defining album for Belle and Sebastian, it’s the first essential album of 2006.
What redeems Tunstall is her voice and the overall punch of her guitars.
Even Johansen’s second outing as Magnet doesn’t stray too far from the Norwegian singer-songwriter’s previous efforts.
Morningwood is trashy, enjoyable, and utterly insignificant entertainment, but so is shotgunning a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Despite losing some steam toward the finish, With Love and Squalor marks this threesome as a band worth watching.
Angelenos are lucky. Our FM airwaves are second-to-none in terms of diversity and quality of programming.
Gone is the acerbic tension that marked the Strokes as forefathers of the East Coast rock resurgence.
There are several songs here that might make you forget all about David Fisher’s unfortunate picnic table demise from Six Feet Under.
In many ways, Breakthrough does present a more grown-up Mary.
By the standards of the albums released by the Idol kids, The Real Thing fares scarcely worse than Ruben Studdard’s Soulful.
Biggie has no one to blame for this overwhelming cavalier negligence but himself.
The clean version of James Blunt’s Back to Bedlam dulls the edges of the U.K. singer-songwriter’s often pointed lyrics
Mariah wasn’t the only one making a comeback in 2005.
This is the kind of score that works better cut into snippets in the film than it does emanating in toto from your home stereo.
Vol. 2 finds Shakira straddling the line more than ever, one part Natalie Merchant and one part Jewel.
Where is the authentic Japanese music on this soundtrack?
For all the so-called weighty subject matter, there’s not much meat on these bones.
Atomic Bomb finds U2 in the unique position of being one of the only rock acts capable of making the universal seem achingly personal.
Carrie Underwood is trying to beat the odds with her debut album Some Hearts.
Damn if instrumental post-rock groups don’t have the goofiest album titles in the business.