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” …

Lorde
Pure Heroine
Pop

The 16-year-old phenom from New Zealand is taking the music world by storm with an album that intuitively recognizes the …

Justin Timberlake
The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop, R&B

A single 20/20 Experience just wasn’t enough for ‘N Sync alum Justin Timberlake. But the mere existence of this second …

Drake
Nothing Was the Same
Rap/Hip-Hop

Frequent, vulgar injections of drugs, bling, brash bravado and sexual prowess make Drake sound so much like so many others …

The Devil Wears Prada
8:18
Christian/Gospel, Metal

With Romans 8:18 as a jumping off point, this Christian metalcore group dives into the grim reality of humanity’s suffering.

Avicii
True
Country, EDM/Electronica/Techno, Folk, Pop, Rock

Not content just to pump out another synth-laden, Euro-beat dance effort, Avicii alchemically blends country, rock, folk, funk, bluegrass, pop …

Keith Urban
Fuse
Country

Current American Idol judge Keith Urban decides to explore some new musical territory … as well as some that’s disappointingly …