Music Reviews

Blanchard's new record LIVE focuses on black art and black lives. For this Jimi Hendrix homage, he puts down the trumpet and pitch-bends the mournful melody on synth.

As political turmoil roiled her home country, Ane Díaz broke down the traditional danzas of Venezuela, rebuilding them with breadth and depth.

Amen Dunes fourth album is a confrontation with the past, full of the nuance and contradiction of person in chaos struggling to do what's right, as well as some of Damon McMahon's strongest songs.

Only a seasoned songwriter could capture the subtleties of committed affection the way that McBryde does in "Andy."

A new album, recorded in a legendary Cuban recording studio, pays meticulous homage to the country's musical history and identity.

Featuring Shannon Wise's mesmerizing wisp of a voice, The Shacks' debut album mixes R&B, dreamy indie-pop and '60s British rock in woozy sheets of reverb.

Everyone looks fly as hell in this "Rosa Tropical" video as the Chicano-soul band burns the edges of the evening with chrome embers.

In a video for the rollicking power-pop song "Oh Baby," Alexis Taylor's eyeballs take part in an absurdist Nora Ephron-style fantasy.

The bittersweet first single from Snail Mail's debut album, Lush, exudes the confidence of an artist coming into her own right in front of us.

The Asheville-based singer and fingerstyle guitarist offers an Appalachian slow burn to melt the snow away.