The album sees the singer taking her skillset to a new level.
A welcome sign of life from an MC who many assumed to be over the hill, and where it fails, it fails on its own terms.
The understated music video for Britney Spears’s “Perfume” successfully shows a more mature side of the pop star.
Bloated with all manner of interstitial suites and assorted skit-like stopgaps, the 19-track Because the Internet could serviceably represent the titular web Gambino finds so perplexing.
Black Panties finds Kelly descending into earthly pleasures more intensely than ever, immersed in a sticky, sordid world of pure sexuality.
From Bowie to Madonna to Gaga, pop music has always been as much a visual medium as an aural one.
SUM/ONE is a restless, speculative, ADHD-generation medley of rhythmic rambling and avant-pop orchestration.
For the past eight years, the Killers have partnered with (RED) for a Christmas single.
Nina Simone’s spirit is lovingly refracted through a Xiu Xiu lens on Nina.
Drive All Night is a sleepy, forgettable EP composed of songs featuring down-on-their-luck subjects hoping to find redemption in love.
Eminem goes back to the future in the new music video for his single, “Rap God,”
Britney Jean is stocked with a mix of harsh EDM a la “Scream & Shout” and flaccid midtempo pop.
Fellow Travelers is a missive to those other bands trudging the tour circuit, and it’s an ambitious one that invites listeners to travel along.
One Direction’s third album is their ’roidy bid to graduate from boy-bandom.
There’s no incentive to buy the album unless, of course, you have a particular allegiance to Katniss and her struggle for a good ham sandwich.
If Macklemore’s so-called advocacy is of questionable healthiness, then the woeful Dallas Buyers Club is downright toxic.
There’s no doubt that, for better or worse, Gaga’s performances are a true, uh, spectacle.
Xiu Xiu’s Nina Simone covers album, Nina, doesn’t even drop until December 3rd.
The video was directed by Brent Bonacorso, whose previous credits include Elton John’s recent “Home Again” and lots of slick car commercials.
Stitches works well in pieces, every one of its 10 songs a marvel of songwriting clarity and singular vision.
Blood Orange’s sophomore effort details a chronicle of alienation and broken romance with slow, melancholic, ’90s-gazing jams.