There's just one way to escape the blitz surrounding Lady Gaga's new album: completely unplug from society.   To kick off the release of her new album, "Artpop," this week,...

The Velvet Underground, "White Light/White Heat" 45th Anniversary edition (Polydor/Universal)   Who knew that the release on Dec. 10 of the 45th anniversary super deluxe edition of...

Kellie Pickler, "The Woman I Am" (Black River Entertainment)   Kellie Picker, on her new album "The Woman I Am," merges the tradition-minded sound of her previous album...

Six months before he died, John Lennon set sail from Newport, R.I., on an ocean adventure to Bermuda that awakened his desire to make musicagain and is now being chronicled in an electronic...

The British Library has been given letters and lyrics by John Lennon under a program that accepts donations of art and cultural artifacts in place of tax.   The Arts Council said Thursday...

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M.I.A, "Matangi" (Interscope)   Named after a ghetto Hindu goddess, M.I.A.'s fourth proper album pops with a relentless pounce and is filled with all the paradoxical imagery...

Listening to Luscious Jackson's four records from the '90s is like a night out hitting the clubs in New York City: a rock riff here, reggae grooves there, some sugary pop, and plenty of low...

The mission of some art, particularly the modern kind, is to provoke — to present outlandish concepts, explore untraditional ideas, challenge traditional norms — and leave you with many...

The Westfield Christmas Launch takes place at Shepherd’s Bush in London today, Wednesday 20 November. This highly prestigious affair is one of the biggest events to kick start the British...