Bruno Mars hopes to hit gold with an increasingly retro R&B sound. But if his style has evolved, his one-track-mind …
Thirty years after conquering the music world, Jon Bon Jovi and his band are somehow still topping the charts with …
The second album from this Swedish singer is long on the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure but short on finding joy …
Life and death, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation, spirituality and naturalism and … Neal deGrasse Tyson? It’s all on …
Lady Gaga is inching past hedonism for hedonism’s sake, trading her outrageous antics something more substantive … if still reckless …
Revolution Radio isn’t perfect. But it represents a revolution for Green Day: It’s perhaps the most upbeat album these punk …
OneRepublic’s latest offers an upbeat, optimistic perspective, with just enough grittiness to keep anyone from accusing the band of being …
Mac Miller’s more famous girlfriend, Ariana Grande, didn’t want to dish details about him to Ellen DeGeneres. Miller has no …
Shaun Mendes often sounds like a bluesy old soul here, spinning stories of love, sex and breakups that belie the …
Jason Aldean tips his hat to the work ethic and dignity of his country constituency in flyover country. Most of …
Praiseworthy shout-outs to God, marriage, family and church compete with more problematic content on this rising country band’s latest effort.
Britney Spears recently told comedian James Corden that she’s not very interested in men or physical intimacy anymore. Her ninth …
Frank Ocean’s second studio effort blurs the lines between musical genres … and between vacuous hedonism and earnest yearning.
Skillet’s melodic-but-ferocious-as-ever tenth effort, Unleashed, is a testament to the band’s faithful, hard-rocking focus on God’s redemptive love.
The movie Suicide Squad has big problems. Its No. 1 soundtrack has even more.














