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Meredith Graves waxes poetic on why the mall beats the Oscars’ red carpet.

The outspoken Perfect Pussy frontperson talks Kanye's new line, Beyoncé's boob tape and Lady Gaga's Hillary Clinton cosplay outfit.

Tears are inevitable.

Our writer finds herself swooning, romanced and disappointed by Adele's third album. And then she locates the appeal of this vastly popular artist.

Miguel’s libidinous album is a musical portrayal of intimacy that expertly parallels the stylistic shifts and complexities of sexuality itself.

Complex and multifaceted, Lantern shows that Hudson Mohawke has more strings to his bow than just being one of Mr. West’s bombastic beatlords.

Future Brown bring disparate sounds and people together on their pristine, powerful debut.

Welcome to polyglot, pre-fab America by way of five pop tour guides.

The Dru Hill singer's latest album re-establishes his cred as a vocal virtuoso with killer pipes and a sly wit.

Even a dyed-in-the-wool indie-rocker can recognize the sultry charms of the new album from veteran soul singer Bettye LaVette.

With The London Sessions, soul icon Mary J. Blige shows us something we haven’t seen before: the real Mary.

ok, to begin with, i like r. kelly. which is, in and of itself, a tricky and vaguely contentious thing to write or say in public. but i do.