Contributor: Adam R. Holz

Chris Daughtry told American Idol host Ryan Seacrest that his band’s third album is “way more upbeat, way more positive lyrically than the last two records.” So is it?

Twice as many happy feet? More like, It’d be a feat for us to be completely happy about this cuddly kids sequel.

Drake’s second album finds the post-DeGrassi rapper admitting that worldly excess doesn’t satisfy his soul. But that doesn’t stop him from pursuing it with gusto.

The ‘Munks cover the likes of Lady Gaga, LMFAO and Katy Perry, begging this question: Is merely editing the really obvious references to sex and alcohol enough to make sordid and sexy songs “kid friendly”?

I was watching the Broncos play the Raiders on Sunday afternoon (go Tebow!) when a DirecTV commercial caught my attention. I wasn’t paying much attention until a voice at the end of the ad trumpeted that anyone who signed up now would receive (among ot …

Perhaps no one on the music scene right now has a better intuitive knack for crafting upbeat, feel-good love songs than Taylor Swift, as “Ours” once again demonstrates.

Last week, Common Sense Media published the results of a new survey about young children and how much screen time they’re getting these days. In short, they’re getting a lot of it. Chalk it up to the proliferation of screens of all kinds. Once upon a t …

Firebrand Miranda Lambert recently married fellow country singer Blake Shelton. But if you think her music’s been similarly domesticated, you’d better read this review.

The latest offering from this rising British alt-rock act plunges listeners into an ocean of romanticized melancholy that drifts into some very dark places.

It’s all in the title of Justin Bieber’s Christmas album—where liplocks get more play than the season itself.

Eddie Murphy returns in another comedy in which he plays multiple roles. Is it another embarrassing ‘Norbit’-sized blot on his résumé? Or is it a step in the right direction?

Hunter S. Thompson’s story about a journalist struggling to save his soul and find his voice blends alcohol-fueled hedonism with equal parts absurdity and social outrage.

‘The Fly’ director David Cronenberg is once again bludgeoning theatergoers. This time with a dark tale of mass murder, combative sex and deadly deception.

Coldplay’s latest is a concept album grasping (sometimes beyond its reach) at transcendent meaning as a young couple struggles against a dystopian government.

Kelly Clarkson’s raspy, throaty and earnest vocals match the content of her songs as she blurs the boundaries between country, rock, pop and soul.