This is the sound of freedom. The Whistles and the Bells is Bryan Simpson, former mandolinist in the bluegrass band Cadillac Sky - a nice gig, but one with creative constraints. "Modern...

The New Pornographers leader A.C. Newman put his nerves about a Donald Trump presidency into a song. "High Ticket Attractions" has received plenty of rock radio airplay as lead track of the new...

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The last time Michelle Branch released a full-length solo album was the same year Apple launched iTunes and "Finding Nemo" was in movie theaters. Judging by Branch's excellent new album, let's try to...

Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo and Mariam Doumbia, from Amadou & Mariam, are part of a supergroup of West African women whose CD "Republique Amazone" is a mesmerizing blend of female advocacy and...

Mary J. Blige may be spitting fireball lyrics about her soon-to-be ex-husband on her new album, but the songs didn't start from a place of anger and hate. It began with hope. "This album ......

"I was clear that music was going to become a language for me," he told The Associated Press before a concert last week in Mexico City. "When I was a boy, I wasn't very introspective...

Earth's reigning guitar god, John Mayer, is out with his seventh studio album, "The Search for Everything." It reveals a calmer artist taking a measured approach to accessible funk-laced...

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Father John Misty, Josh Tillman's alias, makes his bleak, wordy account of today's human condition sound like a long-lost Elton John album from the early '70s. Drenched in piano and strings,...