Tanya Tucker, “Sweet Home Sound.” Tanya Tucker, one of outlaw country’s most cherished voices, is back withSweet Western Sound. Tucker built a career on earnest songwriting and authenticity, which hasn’t changed on her newest record. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, this album follows in the footsteps of…

To get a bead on In These Silent Days, the new album by Brandi Carlile, it may help to compare it to an LP that came out 50 years before it: Joni Mitchell’s era-defining and massively influential Blue. Carlile has had Mitchell’s classic work on her mind a lot in recent…

Always unpredictable, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson sticks true to form on his 11th studio album, the aptly titled WE ARE CHAOS. The album not only digs into Manson’s heavy industrial rock side but also mixes his more ethereal and atmospheric tendencies in a more pronounced way than on past records. He…