Eric Church
The Outsiders
Country, Rock

Eric Church recently said, “There’s good music. There’s bad music.” And he knows how to make both kinds.

Jennifer Nettles
That Girl
Country

Sugarland’s leading lady makes her solo debut with an album that sets the band’s big, polished, arena-ready songs on the …

Switchfoot
Fading West
Alternative, Christian/Gospel, Pop, Rock

Switchfoot’s ninth album, Fading West, also serves as an upbeat soundtrack to the band’s new surfing film. Along the way, …

Justin Bieber
“Journals”
Pop, R&B, Rap/Hip-Hop

Justin Bieber has been releasing a new track every Monday for the last couple of months. Journals collects those melancholy …

Beyoncé
Beyoncé
Pop, R&B

Queen Bey shocked everyone with the surprise release of her fifth album. Will she shock us, too, with what she …

Britney Spears
Britney Jean
Pop

Britney says her eighth album is her most personal. So just how personally do you want to get to know …

Various/Soundtrack
Frozen
Pop, Soundtracks

The Frozen soundtrack is hot. It’s the most popular soundtrack since Titanic’s back in 1998. And an Oscar for Best …

One Direction
Midnight Memories
Pop, Rock

The hit singles! The 3-D concert movie! The international tour! And now the album throngs of tween girls have been …

Daughtry
Baptized
Rock

We rarely have to wait long in a Daughtry song before he responds to life’s many challenges with exhortations to …

Lady Gaga
ARTPOP
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP is monstrously mistitled. (And that’s not the only thing wrong with it.)

Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Rap/Hip-Hop

Thirteen years after the first Marshall Mathers LP, Slim Shady is back. And age has not mellowed him one little …

Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne
Pop, Rock

Avril’s edging inexorably toward 30, but her fifth album is nevertheless a disappointing case study in juvenile rock ‘n’ roll …

Katy Perry
Prism
Pop

Prism is a vexing projection of hard-won wisdom and humility overlaid with visions of reckless sexuality and syncretism.

Miley Cyrus
Bangerz
Country, EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop, R&B, Rap/Hip-Hop

It’s no surprise that Miley Cyrus’ latest effort pulsates with raw and reckless rebellion. What is surprising is how much …

Korn
The Paradigm Shift
Metal

The big news with Korn’s 11th studio album is the hard-core nu metal band’s reunion with founding guitarist-turned-Christian Brian “Head” …