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October 21, 2016Lady Gaga teams up with producer Mark Ronson and streamlines her eccentricities.
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October 21, 2016On his 14th album, the 82-year-old singer/songwriter looks into the void, wrestles with himself, God, and love with unflinching honesty.
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October 21, 2016The nu-metal godfathers make a welcome return to basics on their best album in a decade.
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October 21, 2016Chrissie Hynde revives the Pretenders name for this soulful, swaggering collaboration with Black Key Dan Auerbach.
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October 21, 2016The singer/songwriter teams with Snarky Puppy's Michael League to deliver an uncharacteristically loose collection of new songs.
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October 21, 2016On her second holiday album, Sarah McLachlan favors traditional material and cozy surroundings.
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October 21, 2016Volume of solo acoustic demos recorded between the singer/songwriter's first and second albums contains seven unheard tracks.
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October 21, 2016The Arizona emo-rock stalwarts modernize their sound with shimmering production, indie rock flair, and refreshing experimental flourishes.
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October 21, 2016Debut from a categorically evasive singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist whose approach evokes comparisons to bygone chamber soul and British folk acts.
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October 21, 2016After a six-year wait between albums, the duo returns with an impressive batch of politically charged, dance music-inspired modern pop.
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October 21, 2016The reunited band revisits the post-rock meets emo sound it perfected in 1999, sounding more experienced but otherwise about the same.
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October 21, 2016The duo's sixth album trades out guitars in favor of keyboards, but keeps all the dirty, spooky bubblegum hooks intact.
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October 21, 2016The neo-crooner balances swinging old-school glitz and romance with an ear for contemporary pop hooks and modern studio production.
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October 21, 2016Ambitious four-album set from the New Zealand-based experimental guitarist, ranging from wry, bitter ruminations to cosmic head trips.
National Treasures: The Complete Singles
October 3, 2011
One of the main victims of the "huge in the UK, mostly unknown in America" phenomenon (see: Roses, Stone), the Manic Street Preachers maybe just weren't fun enough to cross the Atlantic with much success; when Oasis was singing about living forever, the Manics were singing about anorexia and leftist politics. But they had the melodies and they had the enthusiasm, so this two-disc compilation is a good place to dip one's toe.
November 9, 2010
The Ettes' Coco Hames and the Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright got together to make an album that blended the best aspects of both bands (super hooky songs, smoky displays of emotion, gritty guitars) into a very satisfiying modern garage rock nugget.
