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Album Review: Joanne Tatham – Out Of My Dreams (9/10)
One of our most engaging and versatile performers, the alternately playful and intimate vocalist brings her heartbreak and whimsy to a set of straight-ahead jazz with clever world ... -
Album Review: Babymetal - Babymetal Reissue (8/10)
Metalheads love spectacle. Kitsch, however, can be a much tougher sell. Defying all odds is Babymetal, three teenage Japanese girls who shockingly won over hordes ... -
Album Review: Liturgy - The Art Work (9/10)
Well, don’t say Hunter Hunt-Hendrix didn’t warn you. Liturgy’s frontman promised the follow-up to 2011’s Aesthethica, widely hailed as one of the year’s best black-metal ... -
Album Review: Various Artists - AG Drive - Original Soundtrack (8/10)
Remember when someone told you that music and fashion run in 10-year cycles? The longer I’m in the music industry the more I see how ... -
Album Review: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (8/10)
With great power comes a greater responsibility and Kendrick Lamar exercises his position honestly. The Walter Cronkite of Black America delivers this relevant release, time ... -
Album Review: Sasha's Bloc - "Heart on Fire" (8/10)
A homage to jazz age sultriness, swagger and swing, but with brilliant originals rather than tired retreads of standards, this glorious, multi-faceted, polycultural collective— burning up ... -
Album Review: Boz Scaggs - "A Fool to Care" (9/10)
Nearly 40 years after his Silk Degrees heyday, Scaggs remains a vital interpretive link to classic American music forms, from rock and R&B to jazz, ... -
Album Review: Sufjan Stevens - "Carrie & Lowell" (9/10)
Sufjan Stevens began by releasing five albums in five years. It’s taken him 10 years to issue his sixth and seventh—a telltale sign of maturity. ... -
Album: Earl Sweatshirt - "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside"
Kendrick Lamar tweeted that Earl Sweatshirt is his favorite rapper. It makes sense––both are L.A. rappers nearing career peaks. While Lamar channels this momentum into ... -
Album Review: Cash Box Kings - Holding Court (8/10)
The Oscar Wilson/Joe Nosek-led blues band continue to move forward with their vintage ‘50s-flavored Chicago sound. All the touchstones of love, money and good times are ...
