Hip-hop’s favorite boy band, BROCKHAMPTON, has announced it is on the way out. The band’s newest release, Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine, is the first of two albums set to drop this year as a swan song. The group’s catalog grows its legendary status, as BROCKHAMPTON touches on everything from the…

The long-teased and anticipated Fearless (Taylor’s Version) has finally arrived in all of its expansive 26-song glory. The rerecording of Taylor Swift’s career-defining album Fearless, released in fall 2008, comes nearly two years after Swift announced her intentions to remake her first six albums after a feud with her record…

Who’s going to tell history’s most enduring and endearing power pop band it can’t make records anymore? Not me. In Another World Cheap Trick BMG, April 9 6/10 Cheap Trick has been releasing albums since the year Jimmy Carter took over for Gerald Ford. Their latest, In Another World, is their…

Chilean superstar Mon Laferte is no stranger to genre changes. After beginning her career as a reality show pop singer, she transitioned to alt-rock with her early indie releases. Then, embracing her tattooed pinup aesthetic, she shifted to her current signature blend of Latin alt-rock and mid-century American big-band…

The newest album from Demi Lovato, Dancing with the Devil… The Art of Starting Over, has been preceded by a series of memorable headlines in recent weeks, undoubtedly framing how the child actress turned pop star’s album is received far before anyone heard the project in its entirety. Dancing…

Head of Roses, the sophomore album from Jenn Wasner’s solo project Flock of Dimes, delivers an intimate, 40-minute record that seamlessly blends earnest indie rock with digital pop. Wasner, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of Wye Oak, describes the album as a journey about “learning to take…

The Fratellis, after 15 years filled with breakups and makeups, have arrived at their sixth album, Half Drunk Under a Full Moon. Their first album, Costello Music, took the world by storm as “Chelsea Dagger” became a sports anthem. Their next three had mixed results, but the new album is…

The new album by Ryley Walker,  Course In Fable, is a great album for a long drive. It doesn’t impose any specific emotion but rather gives a mellow, energized agar on which listeners’ thoughts may grow. Perhaps the title is a callback to 1976 self-help book “A Course in…

I’ve never felt the need to share a band’s liner or press notes in a review. But there aren’t a lot of bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The musical literacy and depth translate to the page, albeit at a smaller scale, when it comes to explaining new album…

As on his 2019 album, The Search, Michigan rapper NF maintains his somber and melancholic stylings on new mixtape CLOUDS, highlighted by simplistic string arrangements and classical music influences throughout. CLOUDS NF Caroline, Mar. 26 7/10 While NF continues to prove his technical abilities as a lyricist, many of the songs ring…