The album sees the singer taking her skillset to a new level.
Wonderland is Dan Deacon visiting Brazil, a pop party rife with cartoony effects.
Burn Your Fire for No Witness is noisier, brasher, and more confident than its languid predecessor.
Too Much Information marks Maximo Park as a band capable of beatific, melancholy-kissed rock that almost no one does well anymore.
The album is a yawner made by two artists whose impressive discography makes its failure that much more confounding.
Dunes is essentially a disillusioned adult’s perspective on the idealism of their halcyon days.
The album contains only a few songs that withstand repeated listens.
Ghettoville is a 70-minute high-wire act, equal parts musique concrète and concrete jungle.
Bad Debt is utterly ageless, like a surviving relic from time immemorial.
Dum Dum Girls’ Dee Dee Penny has settled into a groove as a reliable source of hip, guitar-driven garage-pop.
Last year I made the mistake of second-guessing the Academy’s recent trend of awarding the biggest selling album in this category.
Few Grammy categories are as easily derided as Best New Artist, which with each passing year continues to push the word “new” to the absolute limits of its meaning.
NARAS’s manifesto says the Academy will choose Record of the Year based on artistry alone, “without regard to sales or chart position.”
Patterns, history, tradition. These are often the only tools that showbiz awards prognosticators have at their disposal.
Beck has unveiled the first single from the long-awaited Morning Phase.
Have Fun with God is a featureless expanse of echoing congas, with Callahan occasionally rising from the depths to sing something.
Starting tomorrow, we’ll predict the winners in all four General Field categories of the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
Warpaint’s self-titled sophomore effort finds the Los Angeles quartet moving toward a more subdued, ethereal sound.
The sound of Fading West is all too familiar.
Angel Guts is yet another example that the world needs a guy like Jamie Stewart treating music the way Jamie Stewart does.
This morning Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira premiered her new duet with Rihanna.