As a collaborative album featuring the performers of Kanye West’s GOOD Music label, “Cruel Summer,” ideally, would show off the label’s variety of performers. Indeed, this is the...
Pop’s badass returns with a vengeance serenading audiences with what she knows best and as the album title suggests, the frustrating, complicated and exhilarating adventure that is love. Like her...
After a three-year recording hiatus, the soft-spoken hipsters of Grizzly Bear are back with their fourth studio album, “Shields.” Lead vocalist Ed Droste’s sincere tone and effortless...
Mirage Rock offers the typical loud but pleasant Band of Horses experience with a few unique pieces that nod to related alternative country-rock giants. “Knock Knock” opens the door to the...
Prodigal son Brandon Flowers has returned to The Killers for its first album since 2008, and the band’s sound seems to have evolved during the four-year hiatus. Between the heartfelt single “Runaways”...
Soft, pulsing beats and signature guitar plucks bow in submission to almighty, but understated vocals in “Coexist,” The xx’s second studio album. Bare bones tracks slide seamlessly into...
Canadian quartet Billy Talent makes some noise with its newest installment, “Dead Silence.” The album is an intriguing hybrid of alt-rock and punk. It’s what would happen if Anti-Flag...
Never trust a movie with more than four big name actors attached unless it’s a superhero movie. With a cast consisting of Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Ben Barnes and Dennis...
Don’t be fooled by the feedback-heavy opening of “Gotsta Get Paid.” With multiple distorted guitars flying off in all directions from the get-go, Billy Gibbons’ ancient, raspy voice...
Wedding bells, baby bumps, brain tumors and supernatural intervention are only a few of the bizarre elements concocted for Drop Dead Diva’s gripping season finale. “Diva” lawyer Jane...
Like a crisp autumn baseball game or warm apple pie, there is a quality to The Avett Brothers’ new album that is distinctly American. “The Carpenter” is the folk-rock band’s follow...
While 2009’s highly acclaimed “Merriweather Post Pavilion” found Animal Collective crafting beautiful, sonically lush pieces of music, the recently released “Centipede Hz”...
