“Good Girl,” the feisty lead single from Carrie Underwood’s fourth album picks up exactly where “Before He Cheats” left off.
Las Vegas indie rock act Imagine Dragons dreams up a tough world in which hope and progress are nevertheless still …
Van Halen’s last album with David Lee Roth came out just as Ronald Reagan was finishing up his first term …
The Fray once again plumbs the depths of melancholy introspection. But it (mostly) concludes that even though life is hard, …
Gotye tells us, “You can be addicted to a certain kind of sadness.” And so his new album, Making Mirrors, …
This 34-track magnum opus swan song leaves no musical stone unturned … nor does it even once turn its attention …
The Black Keys’ Grammy-winning album El Camino is as stripped-down and unpretentious as the peculiar automobile it’s named after.
Inspiration and degradation fight for the spotlight on Nickelback’s seventh album.
Chris Daughtry told American Idol host Ryan Seacrest that his band’s third album is “way more upbeat, way more positive …
The latest offering from this rising British alt-rock act plunges listeners into an ocean of romanticized melancholy that drifts into …
Coldplay’s latest is a concept album grasping (sometimes beyond its reach) at transcendent meaning as a young couple struggles against …
Kelly Clarkson’s raspy, throaty and earnest vocals match the content of her songs as she blurs the boundaries between country, …
Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee has built her career on brooding, melodramatic angst. And nearly a decade after she got started, …
Chevelle has a long history when it comes to songs with lyrically inscrutability. This time around, though, breadcrumbs have been …
The latest from Jon Foreman and Co. dives headfirst into the messy, confusing business of life and death, faith, hope …


