The band’s first album in a decade is more haunted than its arena-sized choruses suggest.
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.
On February 25th, Neneh Cherry will return with her first solo album in 16 years.
Call it A Dozen Even More Listless Variations on “With Arms Wide Open.”
Government Plates is another fascinating, frustrating, full-throttle effort from Death Grips.
Employing a more dance-driven, Auto-Tuned approach, Allen takes aim at the industry’s systematic sexism, brought to colorful life in the song’s music video.
Frog Eyes’ Carey’s Cold Spring is less a collection of nine songs than it is a primeval bloodletting.
Chance of Rain is a murmuring storm of alluvial drones and steady percussive patter.
Mariah Carey’s fourteenth studio album, The Art of Letting Go, has had an epic roll-out—and not in a good way.
Growing up in the ’80s, I had to come by Lou Reed through some fashion other than radio.
Moonface’s Julia with Blue Jeans On is a tight song cycle about finding love in a cold climate.
The latest track from Gang Gang Dance’s Brian DeGraw (a.k.a. bEEdEEgEE) features CSS’s Lovefoxxx on vocals.