album reviews

After 35 years, you might think you have Tom Petty figured out, but this portrait of modern malaise is worth spending time with.

Can phantasmagorical hip-hop unseat oligarchs and führers? Son Lux's guitarist phantasmagorically explores this intriguing idea.

Jenny Lewis' music has soundtracked key moments in the life of Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield. Will Lewis' new album do the same?

Don't be fooled by appearances, Slow Club's sonic landscapes are more epic than you might think.

How is the new White Fence album like the freshly exonerated Central Park Five? A meditation on innocence, psychedelia and what’s wrong with the U.S.

What does it mean when a band from a conservative Canadian town names itself after Southeast Asian Communist rebels from the '60s?

A card-carrying Glaswegian weighs in on whether A Sunny Day in Glasgow really deserves their name. The answer will amaze you.

Every year on the 26th of December in Clovis, New Mexico, a pageant takes place. It is known as the Real Feast of St. Steven. Hundreds of...

First of all, thank fucking Christ this album is tough. It's not "summery" or "soaring" or "shimmering" or any of that other shit that bands with...

Maybe we all have missing pieces. Maybe life, in its seemingly endless procession of days, strips things away until it feels like we're just...

The tragedy about a solid debut album, one where you've created a whole new sonic universe and vocabulary, is that you suddenly realize that you're...

Forget everything you know about Lana Del Rey. That’s what I had to do to hear — really hear — her latest album Ultraviolence. Like when you...