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Album Review: A Plus - Pride Liberty Detroit (8/10)
Detroit born sisters Anesha and Antea Birchett may just be pop music’s best-kept secret. They’ve written songs for a mind-blowing client list of top drawer ... -
Album Review: Adam Holzman - Truth Decay (8/10)
“Optimistic music in the age of fear.” That phrase is marked on the album’s inner sleeve. And it is pretty adventurous, upbeat and fearless at ... -
Album Review: Leon Bridges - Good Thing (9/10)
Bridges teams with contemporary pop producer Ricky Reed for this sophomore release, a collection that combines the modern elements of funk and alternative R&B with ... -
Album Review: Sting & Shaggy - 44/876 (8/10)
44/876 is the first collaborative album Sting has made since departing The Police nearly 35 years ago. It is also the first joint project of ... -
Album Review: Mantus - Est. 1976 (9/10)
Originally from NYC, this band gained notoriety in the mid to late ‘70s, with a string of charting disco hits. But they were always rockers ... -
Kimbra - Primal Hearts (8/10)
Best known for her collaboration with Gotye on 2011’s “Somebody That I Used To Know,” New Zealand singer Kimbra is ready to make her own ... -
Album Review: Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap (10/10)
“Last Time That I Checc’d,” Nipsey Hussle was nothing like these “Rap N****s.” For over 10 years, Nipsey has been on his “marathon,” releasing a ... -
Album Review: Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite - No Mercy in This Land (9/10)
Guitarist-vocalist Harper and harmonica player-vocalist Musselwhite tap into some of their deepest emotional and spiritual material to date, blending trad roots and classic themes with ... -
Album Review: Insect Surfers - Datura Moon (9/10)
Stalwart surf band Insect Surfers have released their latest album, one which provides increasingly more punch than expected, given the band’s 30-plus year history. Starting off ... -
Album Review: Ron Gallo - Really Nice Guys (9/10)
Ron Gallo’s latest EP, Really Nice Guys, begins its eight-song track list with “Rough Mix,” which uses obnoxious auto-tune to propel listeners into the rhythm of the ... -
Album Review: Shawn Colvin - The Starlighter (10/10)
Having explored children’s music in 1998, Shawn Colvin revisits this theme with The Starlighter, drawing from Lullabies and Night Songs, a book with musical arrangements by composer Alec Wilder ... -
Album Review: MGMT - Little Dark Age (9/10)
On their first album in five years, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser upraise their obtuse admixture of synth pop and psychedelic rock to new heights of exuberant delirium. Amid ... -
Album Review: Vance Joy - Nation of Two (9/10)
Vance Joy’s 13-track Nation of Two once again capitalizes on the artist’s chief strengths: simplicity, honesty and metaphor. Simplicity by way of largely unadorned guitar and ukulele, honesty in ... -
Album Review: Lissie - Castles (7/10)
Fresh off her Twin Peaks cameo, singer-songwriter Lissie is back with her first release since 2016’s My Wild West. This time around the Illinois native strips ... -
Album Review: Mt. Joy - Mt. Joy (6/10)
Singer Matt Quinn’s vocals are the epitome of a mellifluous, double-edged sword on this wavering debut. Literary lyrics and indigo imagery mate elegantly alongside amber ... -
Matthew Stubbs And The Antiguas - Matthew Stubbs and The Antiguas (8/10)
AMAZING live-sounding production––like the band is right in front of you! Stubbs has released a classic album of instrumentals that references the best elements of ... -
Jules Shear - One More Crooked Dance (8/10)
For nearly 40 years, Jules Shear has been a songwriter’s songwriter, with hits recorded by The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper and others. A number of previous ... -
FREEWIFI - Join the Network (8/10)
Minneapolis newcomers Tha Rift, J. Plaza and Daddy Dinero dish an absorbing sampler-sized serving of crackerjack rhymes and oversized beats. Plaza and Rift’s lyrical dexterity ... -
Björk - Utopia (9/10)
Björk unleashes a remarkable effort with her latest recording. Coming off of the heartbreak depicted on her last album, here she utilizes a woman’s flute ... -
Watain - Trident Wolf Apocalypse (9/10)
Twenty years into their career delivering some of the most blasphemous metal this side of Sweden, the Theistic Satanists (look it up) continue to adorn ...
