Music Reviews

On its debut album, the London-based punk band combines sticky pop flourishes and bruising sounds with brazen self-assurance.

The bluegrass band's songs illustrate how the passage of time, accumulation of experience and changing of perspective can alter a person's relationship to the familiar.

Ty Segall is a scholar of rock, and Freedom's Goblin might as well be his PhD thesis.

The American Southwest continues to inform Calexico's sprawling, cross-cultural indie rock, but here it's a more self-contained, even lonesome affair.

The histories and sounds of Mexico's Comcaac and Canada's First Nation peoples inspire and drive the new work of Hector Guerra and Akawui.

Bertucci unleashes a cascade of overlapping saxophone lines, with each small repetition spawning a new wave of curling, blending sounds.

The Slingshot band combines old-school classic rock with touches of rootsy acoustic music — a sound that overflows with hooks, tenderness and singalong moments.

For its new album, Critical Equation, the Philly rock band "needed to blow it up" and confront its fears and obstacles head on with a darker sound.

The a cappella ensemble's music and performances are rooted in the belief that singing can help us understand how to transcend injustice.

The LA-based artist whose song, "Quiet," went viral after the Women's March on Washington, offers a set of anthemic pop songs that plead for freedom.