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 ...

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 ...

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, singer-songwriter Charlie Puth characterized his career up to this point as “almost a decade of chasing my tail.” Indeed, Puth has at times been dinged for ...

Heavy metal, at least as God and Black Sabbath originally intended it, exists to help listeners confront or at least come to terms with their demons. Songs like “Black Sabbath” and “Sabbath Bloody ...

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 ...

Smelling like burnt rubber and mall body mist, the pop provocateur’s loud, wild new album swerves hard into club antagonism. WOR$T GIRL is most successful as an ...

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.

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 ...

I am, and have always been, staunchly against the Spotify-driven trend of hyper-specific microgenres. Not only is it straight-up stupid much of the time, it’s also actively confining artists ...

Self-doubt hangs like a cloud over Courtney Barnett. It has long been one of the dominant threads connecting her work. Do you really want to go to that party, or would you rather enjoy a quiet night ...