Pop singer Tove Lo warns us at the very top of her strong sophomore album that maybe we shouldn't always believe her. "You know I'm under the influence/So don't trust every word I say," she...

  No, you're not being Rick-rolled . He's back. Rick Astley, the soulful English pop star with the bouffant hair who sang "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the 1980s, has...

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Nouvelle Vague's "I Could Be Happy" adds the novelty of self-written tunes to the band's usual relaxed covers from superior rock and pop catalogues. Songs from The Ramones, The Cure and others...

Leonard Cohen's late, late career resurgence reaches new heights on "You Want It Darker," an elegant treatise with deep felt layers of wisdom and a sense of finality. Produced mostly by son Adam,...

Lady Gaga has spent the last few years proving her vocal chops - the Grammy-winning album with Tony Bennett, the show-stopping "Sound of Music" tribute at last year's Academy Awards, her...

"Revolution Radio" sees Green Day back on the straight and narrow, a dozen potent tunes encasing the punk attitude with plenty of pop hooks. The band shakes off a few years in the wilderness,...

Matt Hires wrestles with negativity - and has a knack for dark, cutting turns of phrase. "In the wilderness," he sings with serrated fury, "yeah, you're bound to fall, when you can't tell the...

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Jonny Fritz left Nashville, he said, because it "had gotten too LA for me." So naturally he went to Los Angeles. That's the kind of offbeat logic we've come to expect from Fritz, whose campy...