Under her enigmatic moniker Bat for Lashes, Natasha Khan has meticulously crafted another album of ethereal, evocative music best for listening while reading Simone de Beauvoir in the bath. This time around,...
Country singer Jason Aldean blends thudding percussion, hard-rock synths and acoustic riffs to create his progressively original fifth studio album, “Night Train.” The mixture of genre-bending...
Can Nelly Furtado, Bono, Keith Richards, Mark Foster and NAS all make appearances on one cohesive album? K’naan’s latest effort, “Country, God or the Girl,” proves it is possible...
Pinback’s latest album, “Information Retrieved” sweeps in with harmonizing vocals to resound its echoing guitar plucking and similarly reverberating bass chords. It all culminates in...
Smack, slap, hammer and strum are a few of the words commonly used to describe the sounds of Kaki King on her Adamas guitar. The soloist/composer recently released her sixth album, “Glow.”...
Bad Books, the collaborative effort of Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra, released its second studio album. The front-runners of the indie-rock scene couldn’t have picked a better month to debut...
An era of Upper East Side mayhem is coming to an end. The premiere of Gossip Girl’s final season finds its leading lady Serena van der Woodsen missing in action as her pretentious posse of pretty-faced...
Though it was released in 2009, the first “Taken” still stands as a wonderfully entertaining film. The movie is pure adrenaline, with plenty of surprises and energy to spare. Sadly, its sequel...
The unoriginal name selection for The Script’s third studio album, “#3,” foreshadows the album’s limited artistic offerings. The Irish alternative rock outfit has churned out 10...
Following the success of her smash hit “Lights,” Ellie Goulding’s sophomore album “Halycon” takes her sound in a new, darker direction. Sweeping tracks like “Explosions”...
If you want to find fresh psychedelic rock from the past decade, it’s tough. However, Australian psych-rock outfit Tame Impala is filling a void that some may not know exists. With sophomore effort...
With Ke$ha’s attitude, Carly Rae Jepsen’s knack for stick-in-your-head hooks and a flow more like “Monster”-era Nicki Minaj than something you’d expect from an 85-pound white...
