Contributor: Adam R. Holz

Why is this happily married wife, mother and country icon telling tales of crime, murder and rebellious renegades? Read on.

Bill Murray has the comedically cantankerous genius-in-his-own mind shtick down pat. He unleashes it again in Rock the Kasbah, to markedly mixed effect.

Adele returns after a four-year absence, again riding an emotional freight train of heartbreak, the very kind that made her famous in the first place.

Gwen Stefani unleashes a completely understandable—and inversely inspirational—lament.

The first original album from the popular a cappella act Pentatonix blends inspirational messages with … less than inspirational ones.

Demi Lovato joins Fall Out Boy on a song “inspired” by one of the most toxic and volatile romances in rock ‘n’ roll history.

Three decades after launching its yellow-and-black attack, Stryper returns with another faith-fueled assault on spiritual darkness.

Though the context of this movie—which is based on a true story—is football, its lessons apply to so much more than gridiron grappling.

I’m not as sanguine as the film’s star regarding the appropriate age to see a movie like Goosebumps.

Demi Lovato is brimming with self-confidence these days. Sometimes that’s a good thing … and sometimes it’s not.

The champagne cork pops off quickly in this Flo Rida hit. And, yes, things flow downhill fast from there.

Selena Gomez “felt it was time to transition to a more adult artist,” says Interscope Records. Which is, of course, code for …

A rock song about how divorce damages children? Leave it to those “Renegades” X Ambassadors to poignantly unpack that subject.

Fierce determination and melancholy isolation clash in the musical mind of Australian singer Sia.

One Direction ponders the seemingly infinite emotional pain of losing somebody we love. So is it a girlfriend … or Zayn?