From soil to stars, the new Aizuri Quartet album offers a space to think
The band's sophomore album, Earthdrawn Skies, connects the dots in wildly diverse music spanning eight centuries.
Music Reviews
Peso Pluma opens up his book of 'Genesis'
Twenty-four-year-old Mexican singer-songwriter Peso Pluma just released his highly anticipated debut album.
Here's the deal with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
How did an Australian band with no hits, modest media coverage and a ridiculous name find a massive audience? The group's metal-forward new album is a perfect example of how it weaponizes niche.
On 'Time Ain't Accidental,' Jess Williamson is heartbroken, but open to love
On the record's 11 songs of vividly detailed, windswept alt-country, Williamson's reeling from the aftermath of a breakup, driving on country highways and finding new love.
Gunna's poised songs of rehabilitation
a Gift and a Curse is the Atlanta rapper's most personable and purposeful album, one interrogating the values of the justice system, rap media and the court of public opinion with artful clarity.
Composer and saxophonist Henry Threadgill has a new album and a new book
Threadgill's autobiography, written with Brent Hayes Edwards is called Easily Slip into Another World. His album, The Other One, is a three-movement composition written for a 12-piece ensemble.
One of pop music's unreliable narrators offers discomfort. (But can you trust him?)
Four decades into his career, Lloyd Cole's On Pain finds this purveyor of guitar pop still exploring that hazy space where people question themselves and make excuses or promises they might not keep.
On the easy-going 'Joy'all,' Jenny Lewis defiantly preaches the pursuit of happiness
With a new home in Nashville, the singer-songwriter's fifth solo album is a laid-back affair full of zen-like wisdom that lands as guidance for a generation.
Janelle Monáe's 'The Age of Pleasure' album is exactly that
Monáe has been releasing albums that mix R&B, pop and rap since 2007 — this is the artist's first since 2018. In recent years, Monáe has appeared in the films Moonlight, Hidden Figures and Glass Onion.
Nu metal never died — it just took a Memorrhage to remember
Musician Garry Brents has been a prolific creator of extreme metal for years, but his latest project returns to his first love, '90s nu metal, through a dystopian lens.