We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
The video pays homage to Jean Genet’s Un Chant D’Amour, the Wachowskis’ Bound, and classic greaser cinema.
With its sweeping scope and rippling tension, Virtue captures the anxieties of our current post-truth age.
With Things Have Changed, Bettye LaVette reaches deep into one of pop music’s richest songbooks.
Bible of Love is a stultifying two discs of competent but generic Christian platitudes.
Messy, uneven, and at times unlistenable, the album’s sheer audacity makes it utterly intriguing.
Taylor Swift’s latest music video shows a softer side of the singer.
The bulk of August Greene primarily operates in a pensive, minor-key mode.
Listen closely enough to Both Sides of the Sky, the third Jimi Hendrix collection released this decade, and you may hear the bottom of a barrel being scraped.
Love and paranoia go hand in hand for singer-songwriter Kevin Barnes on White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood.
Aiming for playful rebirth, the Decemberists instead land on cloying kitsch with I’ll Be Your Girl.
Meshell Ndegeocello’s Ventriloquism turns commonly held conceptions of canon on their head.
American Utopia is the sound of one of pop’s idiosyncratic voices continuing to follow his wayward muse.
In the wee hours of the morning, Iggy Azalea dropped the music video for her catchy new single, “Savior.”
A Productive Cough is Titus Andronicus’s freshest, wildest, most unexpected work to date.
The legendary composer/producer discusses Ray of Light and Leonard Cohen’s final days.
The iconic alt-rock band Belly returns with Dove, their first album in 23 years.
Monáe releases the first two singles from her new album, “Make Me Feel” and “Django Jane,” with complementary music videos.
The music on Brighter Wounds is richly detailed and sonically varied, yet its emotions feel strangely stagnant.
Onion tones down the Oakland-based quartet’s propensity for quirk and polishes their music’s lo-fi edges.
By the Way, I Forgive You frames Carlile’s gnarled roots-rock and folksy storytelling in grand orchestral arrangements.