I bring this up as background for my reaction to Caleb Hearn’s sophomore album, “ LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND ,” which came out on Feb. 20. I had never heard of Hearn before Spotify put his song “ PLAY IT ...

The best pop songs seem to understand that transcendence exists somewhere between euphoria and despair, that the pop alchemy occurs in the strange collision between these opposing, uncontainable ...

Ann Dustin Wilson, born on June 19, 1950, in San Diego, California, is an iconic American singer and songwriter. As the lead vocalist of the rock band Heart, she has been a trailblazing figure in the ...

Nearly two decades into one of K-pop’s most distinctive careers, Sunmi is doing what she once viewed as too risky, too heavy and, perhaps most consequentially, too revealing: releasing her full debut ...

The band reflects on 'A Secret Wish,' the 1985 album that mixed Edgar Allan Poe, industrial beats, and unapologetic romanticism into something truly unique Michael Mertens, Susanne Freytag, Ralf ...

A set of previously unreleased live recordings captures the Minneapolis hardcore trio at peak ferocity. It’s a welcome corrective to the tinny production of their studio albums. Save this story Save ...

Casey Dienel has been in the game for a minute: Their first album, 2006’s “Wind-Up Canary,” was the work of a promising 21-year-old classically trained singer-songwriter with a foundation in ...

Live albums tend to be a contentious subject for music fans of all stripes. On one hand, you get to listen the experience of seeing the band live, but on the other hand, production values may not be ...

This past May the Seattle and Richmond based band The Head and the Heart released "Aperature," their sixth studio record and their first for new label Verve Forecast. It's a record that found the band ...