Music >>

CD Reviews

Review: The Roots of Hip-Hop

Harte (2009)
Everybody wants to claim hip-hop.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | January 19, 2009

Review: Jim Hall and Bill Frisell, Hemispheres

Artist Share (2009)
What makes Hemispheres such a successful collaboration is not that Jim Hall and Bill Frisell meet in the middle but that they start there and extend outward.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | January 12, 2009

Review: A. C. Newman, Get Guilty

Matador
As leader of the New Pornographers, Carl Newman has lorded it over an indie-pop dynamo through four well-received albums.

By: MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | January 12, 2009

Review: Joshua Redman's Compass

Nonesuch
Redman's previous CD, 2007's Back East , was front-loaded with high-concept expectations.

By: JON GARELICK | January 12, 2009

Review: Humcrush | Rest at World's End

Rune Grammofon (2009)
Replete with bands who weave jazz, modern composition, and electronic music, the Rune Grammofon label captures a thriving scene of Norwegian improvisers and composers.

By: DEVIN KING | January 13, 2009

Review: Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

Domino (2009)
Animal Collective began as a band of fringe weirdos, but over time they've dropped the freak from their folk.

By: MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | January 06, 2009

Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

Rhino (2009)
The whole Factory Records stereotype of thin, earnest men in long raincoats complaining about the cold and the damp to absolutely no chicks whatsoever over frenetic machine-made beats is with us for a reason.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 06, 2009

Review: Gilfema + 2

ObliqSound (2009)
With rising jazz-guitar star Lionel Loueke in the mix, Gilfema are shaping up to be a jazz supergroup.

By: JON GARELICK | January 06, 2009

Review: Have Nots, Serf City U.S.A.

Bankshot
Poverty sucks, but buying stuff is awesome, so I have mixed feelings about capitalism.

By: BARRY THOMPSON | January 06, 2009

Review: Mallu Magalhães

Vivo (2009)
Mallu Magalhães is a teenage girl from São Paulo who was raised on a steady diet of old Beatles, Dylan, and Johnny Cash records.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | January 09, 2009

Review: Let Freedom Sing! Music of the Civil Rights Movement

Time/Life (2009)
In any given Black History Month, the three-disc Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement would be a powerful anthology.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | January 06, 2009

Review: Musiq Soulchild | Onmyradio

Lukewarm-Lanta
Atlantic (2008)

By: MIKAEL WOOD | December 15, 2008

Review: Little Willie John | Nineteen Sixty Six: The David Axelrod & HB Barnum Sessions

Kent Records (2008)
Rare soul

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | December 19, 2008

Review: Akon | Freedom

Droppin', poppin', etc.
Back in April 2007, R&B singer and rapper Akon dry-humped a 15-year-old girl on stage, an incident that led to some overblown criticism in the conservative media.

By: DAVID BOFFA | December 15, 2008

Review: Anthony Hamilton | The Point of it All

Zomba
Anthony Hamilton is like a latter-day Bill Withers, with a gruff, straight-talkin' voice that can holler at you from across the room and then downshift to a gentler, fatherly tone once you draw close.

By: ZETH LUNDY | December 16, 2008

Review: Various Artists | Instro Hipsters A Go-Go!

Throwback Throwdown
Psychic Circle (2008)

By: DEVIN KING | December 15, 2008

Review: Kanye West | 808s and Heartbreak

West Coasts
Roc-A-Fella (2008)

By: RICHARD BECK | December 15, 2008

Review: Angil & Hiddentracks - Oulipo Saliva

Chemikal Underground
Chemikal Underground

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | December 09, 2008

Review: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Legacy Edition
Early rocker turned country icon Cash hit California's Folsom like a lightning bolt on January 13, 1968, delivering two raw shows to a captive audience.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | December 09, 2008

Review: Fennesz - Black Sea

Touch
In the music of Christian Fennesz, there's a fine line between what's being done for you as a listener and what's being done to you.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 17, 2008

Review: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Columbia/Legacy
Columbia/Legacy

By: JON GARELICK | December 12, 2008

<< first ...< prev 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | next >... last >>

58 of 82 (results 1631)