Successful DJ duo Tenishia has just released another single and music video from their most recent album Memory of a Dream. The single, which is the title track of the album, was released...

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter ranks among jazz's greatest composers, but when his quartet performs live — as on this album — his compositions are mere frameworks for daring improvisations...

After the furious "Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!" and a pair of swaggering records from primal side project Grinderman, fans of Nick Cave may have expected another slab of guitar distortion and sex...

British-born Jamie Lidell may have relocated to Nashville, Tenn., but his new album is anything but country.   His fifth full-length release — self-produced in his home studio —...

Iceage, "You're Nothing" (Matador Records)   The second album from the four Danish lads known as Iceage is an even more caustic slab of brooding punk than their blindsiding...

Holly Williams is the kind of poetic songwriter country music once embraced. These days, the powerfully sensitive songs featured on her new album, "The Highway," are relegated to the...

On "Electric," Richard Thompson plugs in and delivers his most generous helping of guitar solos in many years, perhaps ever. The fretwork is marvelous even by his lofty standards, and some...

Kris Kristofferson, "Feeling Mortal" (KK)   As the title "Feeling Mortal" implies, singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson confronts the consequences of aging in...

Jonas Kaufmann, "Wagner" (Decca)   Just about anything the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann does these days is special, and he sounds in particularly fresh voice as he ventures into...

There's no shortage of classic recordings of the second and most popular opera in Wagner's four-part "Ring" cycle.   This new version — first installment of a...