Joe Jackson has spent nearly half a century not staying in one place too long. Through highlights (1979's new-wave-meets-bar-band debut, Look Sharp!) and lowlights (the 1997 classical concept LP ...

It’s no overstatement to say that a lot of today’s pop music would not sound the way it does without Robyn. Her self-titled 2005 album and its follow-up “Body Talk” paved the way for and ...

Unlike their flawed first album, Queen’s second effort was nearly perfect to begin with. “’Queen II’ was the single biggest leap we ever made,” guitarist Brian May has said. “That’s when we really ...

It’s possible that we didn’t, in fact, want the old Kanye. Bully, the 12th studio album from Ye, né Kanye West, feels in some ways like a greatest-hits compilation: There are soul samples flipped with ...

Easter Sunday may be just over a week away, but for someone whose true religion is music, I'm more attuned to the “sounds” of salvation. Cue the hallelujah chorus… because Loreen’s long-awaited album ...

On his first album for his own Plastic & Sounds label, the Japanese producer sounds pricklier than ever, lacing hypnotic house and techno with microtonal dissonance and clashing textures. No score yet ...

Cloud rap’s golden era lives on this trilogy-closing new album from smokedope2016, whose candidly emotional raps and misty, holographic production recall Yung Lean. Since 2023, smokedope2016 and his ...

Here Are the First Week Numbers for Kanye West's 'BULLY' Ye's twelfth studio album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.

A single guitar thrums doggedly forward, supporting with all its might the quavering, world-weary alto of Justin Morris. “Walking her dog as the sun goes down,” he intones on “Beadie,” in the voice of ...

Charlie Puth makes what I’d like to call “guilty pleasure pop.” By that, I mean pop music that is sleekly and professionally made, but whose cheugy songwriting would make you a little embarrassed if ...

Ella Langley was a merely promising young country star this time last year, riding the modest success of Hungover, her solid LP debut. A twangy neo-trad country set branded with a knowing taste for ...

Charlie Puth, the American singer-songwriter known for hit songs such as “Attention,” “See You Again” with Wiz Khalifa, and “One Call Away,” has released a new album called “Whatever’s Clever!” on ...