Review: Beyoncé's Visual Album, 'Black Is King'
Beyoncé's newest visual album, Black is King, was released yesterday on Disney+.
Music Reviews
Belated New Music From Drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Is A Gem
Blakey led his band for almost 40 years, making many classic records with top musicians. Just Coolin', a newly unearthed 1959 recorded studio session, showcases his stylistic precision.
Taylor Swift Releases New Album, 'Folklore'
Taylor Swift surprised her fans and released a new album Friday. Folklore is her eighth studio album.
Composer Maria Schneider Returns, With A Reckoning, On 'Data Lords'
After collaborating with David Bowie in 2014, the multiple Grammy-winning composer found her artistic process had been recombobulated a bit — much like our ever-more digital world.
HAIM Radiates Sunniness In 'Women In Music Pt. III'
The new album by three Los Angeles sisters feels like it was meant to be blasted loud in your car as you try to time all the green lights along Sunset Boulevard.
Asher Gamedze's Astral Jazz Will Carry Your Soul To Utopia
Dialectic Soul, the South African drummer's debut as a bandleader, is a stunning protest album meant to soundtrack resistance anywhere in the world.
The Chicks After The Fire
Long known as firebrands ready to take on abusers, country music and the president, the trio now known as The Chicks is finding – on its first album in 14 years – beauty in loss and lonesomeness.
Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire Mixes The Playful And Solemn On A New Album
The Bay Area trumpet player broke out in jazz over a decade ago. A new album by his quartet, on the tender spot of every calloused moment, shows just how pretty Akinmusire can play.
Drummer Chad Taylor Radiates Good Vibrations On 'The Daily Biological'
Taylor brings hi-hat funk to his new trio's album. It's a slightly odd line-up, with no bass instrument — which opens up possibilities for different ways to kick the rhythm along.
Arthur Jafa's Glorious Vision And Kanye West's Gilded Faith
Arthur Jafa, the celebrated artist, translates a new song from West into his own film-visual language, both elevating and transcending it.