Music

"ICHtHBaO—talk about a mouthful—is equal parts earnest, playful, and laidback with an added dash of melancholy for good measure...."

"Unhappy in work, love, health, and music, Justin Vernon fled to his father’s cabin in Wisconsin. After a three month stint of 2..."

"For better and worse Sam Cooke’s studio material is impeccably polished...maybe that's not the right word. Clean? Wholesome? I ..."

"Having missed out on the Riot Grrrl movement, Karen O was the first ferocious female singer that I ever heard. Fever to Tell is..."

"For his sixth album, Springsteen ditched the E Street Band and looked to Flannery O’Connor for lyrical guidance. This stripped ..."

"There is enough genre-specific familiarity on this record to call it "pop country", but honestly that would be doing ..."

"Elegant & hypnotic; I can't get enough of Ala.ni's beautiful, rich-crooning!"

"A lot of great albums came out in 2007-2008, many better and more memorable than this one. To me, though, Red, Yellow, & Bl..."

"It wasn’t until I lent Ys (pronounced “ees”) my full attention that I fell in love with it. And fall in love I did. Hard. Newso..."

"The Boss followed up his instant classic Born to Run with something a little less polished, a little more fierce. It may not b..."

"I enjoyed this album just as much as their debut, Communion, if not more! Fun, upbeat and great music to work out to."

"In her one of a kind debut, Newsom's beautiful harp playing contrasts sharply with her untrained, childlike voice. The album ma..."

"Bad Witch concludes the trilogy of releases from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, starting with 2016's Not The Actual Events, and..."

"I've been listening continuously for days and even though I had to google some of the plot points (because different characters..."

"While an omnipresent Apple marketing campaign insured that “One Two Three Four” was heard the world over, The Reminder, Canadia..."

"northern downpour"

"The Crystal Castles formula really shouldn't work, but it does: weird, ghostly vocals get plugged into frenetic, ravey synth tr..."

"I don't know anything about professional wrestling. Anything at all. I don't even particularly care to learn about it. That sai..."

"This album is a borderline masterpiece of grand scale goth rock. I could write pages upon pages about how great it is, but I wi..."

"Every couple of years or so, music critics proclaim a new up and coming band “the saviors of rock and roll.” In 2002, that was ..."