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Album Review: Oleg Frish - Duets With My American Idols (7/10)
As host of the Russian language show Time Out, Russian-born radio and TV personality Oleg Frish interviewed legends from across pop culture. Combining his worlds ... -
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: 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 ... -
Album Review: Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise (7/10)
Three times is the charm for this Detroit emcee, who with witty wordplay and a fresh delivery has finally scored a solid release. Sean displays ... -
Album Review: Morgoth - Ungod (7/10)
Following At the Gates’ 2014 first studio LP in 19 years, fellow European death-metallers Morgoth follow suit with a new record that’s the same number ... -
Album Review: AWOLNATION - RUN (9/10)
The quintessential hipster, alt-pop electronic rockers have unleashed another bundle of luscious, uncommon compositions marked by preternaturally memorable lyrics. A pair of extraneous answering machine ... -
Album Review: The Sweetwater Hillbillies - On the Road (8/10)
This funky, playful and rambunctious all-star group of songwriters and first-call sidemen (guitarist Travis Wammack, fiddler Donny Carpenter, pianist S.E. Willis and singer/ multi-instrumentalist Shane ... -
Album: Swami John Reis,the Blind Shake - Modern Surf Classics
Score: 9 out of 10 Guitarmeister John Reis (Rocket From The Crypt and Drive Like Jehu) reinvents himself with an amazing set of surf-rockers. Ably ... -
Album Review: Fritz Kalkbrenner - Ways Over Water (8/10)
Kalkbrenner’s new album is a tastefully created popish electronica soundscape. Even though the artist has hit critical mass in Europe, there are plenty of people ... -
Album Review: Vanilla Fudge - Spirit of '67 (7/10)
The year 1967 was pivotal for psychedelic rock. Playing tribute to that historical moment, Vanilla Fudge navigates genres, on time-tested hits bound together by the ... -
Album Review: Smallpools - Lovetap! (9/10)
Indie pop band Smallpools debut with flying colors, delivering infectious, upbeat tunes that instill the desire to dance—perhaps with a bonfire on the beach or ... -
Album Review: Stephanie Spruill - It's a Jazz Day (8/10)
This multi-faceted force of nature brings to her first veritable jazz album a long, lush history as a touring and sessions singer and a powerful rep as a ... -
Album Review: Stephanie Spruill - It's a Jazz Day (8/10)
This multi-faceted force of nature brings to her first veritable jazz album a long, lush history as a touring and sessions singer and a powerful rep as a ... -
Album Review: The Dennis Dreith Band - Reunion (Score: 8/10)
Renowned as a motion picture composer, arranger and conductor, and an influential advocate for musicians’ rights, Dreith––true to the title of this high energy, bold and brassy jazz ensemble ...
