Music Reviews

Based on true accounts, the song is a devastating testimony to the quiet suffering of the partners and spouses who welcome soldiers home.

An unlikely musical collaboration, Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet shatter boundaries of culture, genre, faith and ethnicity.

The one-time pop idol belts an Elmore James blues burner with a mighty maturity on this track from an all-star tribute album.

The success of "A Thousand Miles" pigeonholed Carlton as a commercial pop star. But on her fifth studio album, she owned her creative process and reinvented herself as the artist she was meant to be.

The Bay Area vocalist's first full-length album, comprised of songs from her childhood in Mexico, is worth the wait.

The East London singer-songwriter riffs on the mild neurosis of heartache; he seems to always make it last just a few notes longer than it should.

A new track from Rock Island, the Philly quartet's forthcoming album, is jam-packed with twitchy drums and dizzying melodies.

The rock band delivers the wallop of unabashed fun that made the original such a fireworks display of candy-cane colors.

Once a teenage winner of The Voice, the country singer has begun to personalize her craft, with new textures to her big delivery and diaristic self-disclosure in her lyrics.

On a second installment of back catalog gems and choice covers, the country singer-songwriter retains his hard-living artistic persona — but also embraces meaningful familial attachments.