Fat White Family | Serfs Up!
Revenge may be a dish best served cold. But subversion, like medicine, goes down smoother when accompanied by even the smallest dash of sugar. Case in point: Serfs Up!,...
Bruce Hornsby | Absolute Zero
For Bruce Hornsby, The Way It Is hasn't been the way it is for a long time. In the three decades since he fluked his way onto the pop...
Beyonce | Homecoming: The Live Album
Some live albums can stand on their own without visuals. Beyonce’s Homecoming, sadly, is not one of them. This is not to suggest the mammoth set — which captures...
Wynton Marsalis | Bolden: Original Soundtrack
Buddy Bolden is the most influential jazz artist you've never heard. And neither has anyone else alive — although the legendary cornet player and his band supposedly cut at...
The Rolling Stones | Honk
Hands up, everybody who wants to shell out for another Rolling Stones anthology containing Start Me Up, Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, It's Only Rock ’n’ Roll (But I Like...
Jade Bird | Jade Bird
Her name might sound like a piece from your grandma's jewelry box. But Jade Bird — and yes, that apparently is her real moniker — is the latest in...
The O’Jays | The Last Word
The O’Jays’ Love Train has come to the end of the line. But even on the final run, it's staying right on track. After nearly 60 years and 30...
Cage the Elephant | Social Cues
Cage the Elephant have always been chameleons. And uncontainable. Over the course of their four previous studio albums — including the 2015 Best Rock Album Grammy winner Tell Me...
Lizzo | Cuz I Love You
Subtlety is not in Lizzo’s playbook. And why should it be? These are not subtle times, after all. And Lizzo is nothing if not a pop star for our...
PJ Harvey | All About Eve: Original Music
No need to fasten your seatbelts. This is anything but a bumpy ride. In fact, PJ Harvey plays it surprisingly smooth on this primarily instrumental score to Ivo Van...
Johnny Thunders | Madrid Memory
Johnny Thunders was not exactly a consistent performer. Unless you count the fact that he was consistently inconsistent. One night the glam-punk legend could have it together; the next...
Pearl Harbor & The Explosions | Pearl Harbor & The Explosions Deluxe
Better late than never. Even this late.
It's been four decades since mischievously named singer Pearl E. Gates (actually Patricia Gilbert) and her San Francisco bandmates — who operated under...
The Budos Band | V
That's V as in 5. Though really, the title of The Budos Band’s latest album could just as easily stand for Victory. Chiefly because the underappreciated Staten Island crew...
Fontaines D.C. | Dogrel
"I'm gonna be big!" announces Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten on the first track of his band's misleadingly titled debut album Dogrel. One assumes he's being sarcastic. But he's...
T Bone Burnett | The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space
Everybody loves a big finish. But they don't come much bigger than T Bone Burnett’s The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space. Or much stranger, to be honest. The superstar producer...
