The year may have gotten off to a slow start, but these are the albums that we just can’t stop listening to.
The album is a relatively understated answer to the public response of Little Plastic Castle.
The lil’-folksinger-who-could took on a twangier twist on Puddle Dive, her fourth album in as many years.
With her third album, Lil’ Kim continues to de-caricaturize her sex-goddess image.
Yep, she still squirms and straddles her piano bench like she’s wielding an electric guitar.
After 13 years and 13 albums, DiFranco has brought her musical evolution full circle.
Fortunately, DiFranco’s collaborative work seems to be leading her back to her roots.
Chocolate Factory gets right down to the usual business.
Like much of the album, the gorgeous “einschlaf” takes off like a revelatory epiphany and drops you somewhere between serene saturation and famine.
Massive Attack continues to thumb its nose at the grand expectations that have loomed over them since their 1991 masterpiece, Blue Lines.
Fischerspooner’s Casey Spooner may hate nostalgia, but his group’s debut, #1, is certainly a sonic retro feast.
Jeffrey Gaines is a true believer in embracing life’s opportunities at every turn.
The album is crammed with more hooks than the last three Pumpkins releases combined.
The album is packed with bonus track after bonus track and seemingly never ends!
Malin’s attempt at Dylanesque balladry falls short of the lofty goal and what remains is a less than adequate approximation.
Check out our predictions and watch the 45th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on February 23rd to see if we’re as clairvoyant as we were last year!
Tuned, tweaked, and polished, System of a Down has politely tossed us their best album yet.
Common channels the ghosts of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison to achieve a post-gangsta rap hybrid unlike anything else out today.
It was a year of revelations and mixed blessings. The teen-pop bubble didn’t so much burst as deflate.
Forget Mariah. Whitney takes the cake when it comes to distressed divas on the comeback trail.
I Care 4 U is a condensed celebration of the young star’s abbreviated life and career.