Whether she’s evoking pop, rock, R&B or EDM stylings, Kelly Clarkson’s self-confidence-meets-spitfire-spirit remains more than evident on her seventh studio …
Christian metallers RED return with a dramatic, boundary-pushing concept album about the “dichotomy of good and evil.”
Mat Kearney’s fifth album offers a polished amalgamation of pop and rap as he gratefully ponders his past and the …
Imagine Dragons’ sophomore effort bleeds with earnest, angst-ridden spiritual longing. A longing for what? Light.
Drake offers up an unintentional case study in the idea of a God-shaped vacuum in our souls—by trying to fill …
Simon Cowell’s latest X Factor creation takes the musical stage with sass and sensuality, sporting a sultry synthesis of pop, …
Fall Out Boy albums are always interpretive exercises in sifting lyrical wheat from chaff or, say, beauty from psychosis.
Marilyn Manson’s ninth studio album marinates in brooding, opaque, spiritually sordid imagery that, while not as grotesque as it might …
This rising British star isn’t really who you think she might be. On her second major-label release, Sucker, Charli XCX …
It’s as if The Pinkprint’s risky emotional authenticity just gets too scary for Nicki Minaj. So she retreats to “safer” …
As the title indicates, this is Bastille’s third Vs. compendium, a so-called mix tape that’s full of contributions from relatively …
Dementia may have claimed AC/DC’s aging rhythm guitarist. And the band’s drummer may be on his way to jail. But …
French EDM maestro David Guetta conscripts a long list of upper-echelon vocalists—Ryan Tedder, John Legend and Nicki Minaj among them—on …
In November we begin musing about mmm-inducing Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas shopping and … the arrival of a new One Direction …
Nickelback has a new record label. But that’s about all that’s changed when it comes to this consistent—and consistently vexing—veteran …