On her new album, "Middle Cyclone," the feral songstress sounds like a minstrel along Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic road.
By Kevin Berger Apr 7, 2009
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On her gleeful new album, the British pop star defends her right to have good sex and be just a girl -- in the best possible way.
By Stephanie Zacharek
February 26, 2009
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This should be Bruce's promised land. So why is his vision of America still so bleak?
By Louis P. Masur
January 27, 2009
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Axl Rose and Kanye West dropped their larger-than-life albums this week. And one of them lives up to the hype.
By Simon Reynolds
November 29, 2008
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Channeling Prince and David Bowie, Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes has become an unlikely sex symbol.
By Michaelangelo Matos
October 21, 2008
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With their passionate new album, "Dear Science," TV on the Radio stake their claim as a great American rock band.
By James Hannaham
September 30, 2008
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The Fiery Furnaces know how to make perfect pop songs, and they know how to rock -- but on their first live album, they just want to tear things apart.
By Michaelangelo Matos
August 19, 2008
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Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst was my guilty pleasure for years. But now that he has changed from angsty teen to Johnny Cash wannabe, why can't I enjoy his music?
By Judy Berman
August 7, 2008
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Trent Reznor doesn't just want you to steal his new songs, he wants you to tear them up.
By James Hannaham
July 28, 2008
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The Hold Steady are a New York indie rock band for people who hate New York indie rock bands, and their new album chronicles the country's dark underbelly.
By Michaelangelo Matos
July 14, 2008
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He insists he's "the best rapper alive" -- and many agree. But can his smash-hit new album really redeem a flagging genre?
By Jess Harvell
June 19, 2008
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On her debut album the velvety-voiced actress's dreamily erotic charms are not lost in translation.
By Stephanie Zacharek
May 28, 2008
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On "Hard Candy," the 49-year-old disco queen gracefully walks a tightrope between sex, motherhood and aging.
By James Hannaham
April 30, 2008
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The moody British band is back, but they've ditched sensual black grooves and embraced their inner goth.
By James Hannaham
April 17, 2008
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Forget the slick mall-punk that rules the radio. If you like your music chaotic and bratty, you need to hear Times New Viking and Be Your Own Pet.
By Jess Harvell
April 15, 2008
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Are Gnarls Barkley's wacky costumes and goofy antics just a smoke screen for the massively successful duo's angst?
By Miles Marshall Lewis
April 3, 2008
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Why the dark and madly poetic Destroyer is my favorite rock band in ages.
By Kevin Berger
March 31, 2008
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Disguised as Magnetic Fields and Cat Power, Stephin Merritt and Chan Marshall are still playing games with the singer-songwriter archetype.
By Zach Baron
January 25, 2008
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"The Brit Box" evokes an era of pale, sensitive, eyelinered boys -- and the Anglophiles who loved them.
By Simon Reynolds
December 8, 2007
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The hip-hop icon's inspired new release, "American Gangster," is his best album in years -- and the best rap album of 2007.
By Bomani Jones
November 6, 2007
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Spears calls us out in her new album, "Blackout," giving bad sex a half-assed hard sell. Do we still want a piece of her?
By James Hannaham
October 31, 2007
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Reviews of the latest albums from the Kaiser Chiefs, Macy Gray and Ricky Skaggs with Bruce Hornsby.
March 27, 2007
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The latest from Arcade Fire, the Stooges and Ry Cooder.
March 6, 2007
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The latest from Dean and Britta, Mary Weiss and Dr. Dog.
February 27, 2007
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Releases from Diana Ross, the Holmes Brothers, America and the Autumn Defense.
January 16, 2007
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