Grade: C- Break out your guyliner and restore your devil lock haircut, AFI is back with a new album. Moody crooner Davey Havok returned from his solo career long enough to crank out AFI’s macabre...

Grade: F In the span of five minutes, a person can accomplish an astonishing amount of tasks. Hand washing, teeth brushing, or even cleaning the gutters. Alternatively, a person could sit through the miserable...

Grade: A+ Knowing Tom Hanks would play the signature role in “Captain Phillips,” I assumed the movie would be a hit, and it was. It was the kind that becomes an instant classic, similar to...

Grade: A+ “Bubblegum” and “Bulldozer” are everything I could have asked of Kevin Devine. Even though the records are two separate entities, both are cohesive musical works that...

Grade: D- It appears that The Biebz is trying show that he has matured as artist by becoming a Drake impersonator. On his new release “Heartbreaker,” Justin Bieber mumbles his way through a...

Grade: B- Indie pop duo Cults released its second studio album just in time for its performance at Voodoo. “Static” ironically sounds a lot more polished than the band’s debut self-titled...

Grade: C+ Pearl Jam’s latest album, “Lightning Bolt,” is like any Pearl Jam album — it doesn’t bomb, but it doesn’t thrill either. Upon first listen, it seemed a lot...

Grade: B+ “American Horror Story: Coven” opens up with a sucker punch performance from Kathy Bates as the sadistic Madam LaLurie. If you can stomach past the initialtorture scene, you’re...

Grade: A+ Warner Brothers “Gravity” may just be the best movie to be released this year. It’s hard to find much wrong with it. Sandra Bullock gives the performance of her career, leaving...

Grade: D+ Folksy rock group The Avett Brothers has rushed to release its eighth studio album, “Magpie and the Dandelion,” a little more than a year after the release of “The Carpenter.”...

Grade: D RCA Records Miley Cyrus’ first album in more than three years, “Bangerz,” is, in short, a sloppy attempt to reinvent Cyrus’ career and wash away her Disney façade...

Grade: A- Oddball rapper Danny Brown’s third studio album “Old” is streaming on Spotify one week before its release on Oct. 8. The rock-rap album, arranged into a Side A and B, is distinct...