First Listen: Highly Suspect, 'The Boy Who Died Wolf'
An unexpected Grammy nominee earlier this year, the Cape Cod band fine-tunes its retro-grunge attack into something far more dynamic, soulful and alluring.
Music Reviews
Music Review: 'We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service,' A Tribe Called Quest
The new album from A Tribe Called Quest is the group's first in 18 years. We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, was recorded before the death of founding member Phife Dawg last March and was just released this month.
The Deceptively Simple Sound Of Scott And Charlene's Wedding
Mid-Thirties Single Scene, the new album by the Australian group Scott and Charlene's Wedding, describes the thoughts and actions of a character who has just turned 34. Critic Ken Tucker has a review.
A Tribe Called Quest Stands United, One Last Time
Two decades after splitting up, the pioneering rap crew released its final album Friday. We Got It from Here mines sounds from across hip-hop's history, but the content is bracingly of the moment.
First Listen: D∆WN, 'Redemption'
As electronic dance music continues to experiment, D∆WN stands apart by making challenging pop music with soul. Redemption radiates defiance in its celebration of the self.
First Listen: Thee Oh Sees, 'An Odd Entrances'
The prolific psych-rock band's newest album — its second in only three months — traffics in alternately jittery and hypnotic jams.
First Listen: Pink Martini, 'Je Dis Oui!'
To take in the band's ninth album is to experience a globetrotting victory lap across eight different languages, all tackled with cosmopolitan sophistication and the playfulness of pop.
First Listen: Sad13, 'Slugger'
Sadie Dupuis' new solo songs are brimming with taut hooks, layers of flittering keyboards and electronic beats that'll get everyone bobbing and moving on the dance floor instead of in the mosh pit.
First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'The 1966 Live Recordings'
During the months he spent on the road in 1966, Dylan refined a way of inhabiting and transforming his own songs that was different from anything he'd done before.
First Listen: Sleigh Bells, 'Jessica Rabbit'
The duo's fourth album is a testament to the power of a celebration gone weird, with chopped-up and resequenced hooks working as the raw material for a scathing, fragmentary kind of pop.