Charles Bradley | Black Velvet
"The world I live in, it’s painful. It hurts. In a word: It’s bittersweet." Charles Bradley admitted that to me about 15 months before he died of cancer in...
Swizz Beatz | Poison
When you only make one album every decade, you have plenty of time to make it great. So you'd better. And to his credit, Swizz Beatz certainly does on...
Imagine Dragons | Origins
Evolution isn't necessarily everything it's cracked up to be. Case in point: Origins, the Charles Darwin-titled fourth studio release from Las Vegas pop-rockers Imagine Dragons and (fittingly enough) the...
Rodney Crowell | Christmas Everywhere
"Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas out the waz. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas up the shnoz." If that line from the title track to Rodney Crowell’s first holiday album...
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra | The Capitol Studios Sessions
There are some things in this world that can't be explained. Not by science. Not by religion, Not by logic. Not by any source of knowledge known to modern...
Muse | Simulation Theory
Can not having a concept be a concept? It can if you're Muse. Or at least you can pretend it is. After painstakingly crafting a trio of grandly ambitious...
The Beatles | The Beatles (White Album) 50th Anniversary Box: 27 Unreleased Gems
"It was great. It sold. It's the bloody Beatles’ White Album. Shut up!" So said Paul McCartney when someone suggested The Beatles’ self-titled magnum opus should have been a...
Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch | Thought Gang: 10 Oddly Apt Quotes
“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”
Special Agent Dale Cooper was talking...
JD McPherson | Socks: A Christmas Album
Finally, an album that answers the age-old musical question: What would it sound like if NRBQ cut a Christmas LP at Sun Studios? What if they wrote an original...
Vince Staples | FM!: Nine Malign Lines
"Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit?" Vince Staples inquires midway through his surprise release FM! It's clearly a rhetorical question. Whether you like it or not,...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 5-11
Here are the major album releases, TV appearances, anniversaries and important musical events of the next seven days. Mark your calendars and get in on some pre-order action —...
The Prodigy | No Tourists
Turn down? For what? You won't catch techno masterblasters Liam Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim changing their pitch up on this seventh studio album. Or leaving their comfort zone....
Tenacious D | Post-Apocalypto
It's the end of the world as we know it. And Tenacious D feel fine. Too bad Jack Black and Kyle Gass also felt like putting most of their...
Pistol Annies | Interstate Gospel: The Four Commandments
Fans' prayers have finally been answered: Five years after the last Pistol Annies album, Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley have finally reconvened for their third studio release....
William Shatner | Shatner Claus: Three Guests Who Lose (And Three Who Win )
It ... was ... only ... a matter! of! time! Over the past 50 years, the one and only William Shatner has ruined songs by everyone from The Beatles...
