music commentary

All we are saying is give Prince a chance.

The English folk-rock legend reflects on the new album by the Canadian singer-songwriter legend.

On his new mixtape, Mick Jenkins displays a vulnerability and an urgency that put him in a class of his own.

On his 20th album, Robyn Hitchcock drops the whimsy for a focused meditation on death, love and loss.

No need for a memoir; Loudon Wainwright III's covers everything from depression to proper canine care on his 27th album.

Don't call it a comeback: the summer festival band of 2015 returns with healing, heart-on-sleeve disco made with obsessive sonic precision.

The Growlers’ garage-psych might recall California hot rods and surfing, but it speaks to a disaffected contemporary counterculture.

Don’t let 5 Seconds of Summer give you the wrong idea, Australia has given the world plenty of great art. Just not this album.

As long as we have songwriters like Justin Townes Earle, there’s no reason to worry about the fate of country music.

The British synth-pop icon congratulates Glass Ghost on their cascading torrents of sound and gorgeously imagined hedonistic tumble.

Does My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden realize that she simultaneously reminds us of her humanity and transcends it?

The new Alt-J album finds hope for a new generation of kids no longer in thrall to rock & roll’s clichés of attitude and self-destruction.