Streaming numbers for R. Kelly have remained intact a week after Spotify announced it had removed the R&B singer's music from its playlists, citing its new policy on hate content and hateful...

You can hear the playful banter long before Sting and Shaggy enter the room. There's a genuine chemistry between the two men that defies difference in age and musical styles, one that translates...

Luke Winslow-King, "Blue Mesa" (Bloodshot Records) Don't look for ferocious twists and turns on Luke Winslow-King's "Blue Mesa." Though he well knows life is usually far from trouble-free, this...

Jennifer Castle, "Angels of Death" (Paradise of Bachelors) There are excellent records about death, dying, grief and goodbyes — from Neil Young's "Tonight's the Night" and David Bowie's...

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Charlie Puth, "Voicenotes" (Atlantic Records) The delay in the release of Charlie Puth's sophomore album has been maddening. He already had a hit with one of the songs, "Attention," last summer....

Las Rosas, "Shadow by Your Side" (Greenway Records) Brooklyn trio Las Rosas upgrades its lo-fi sounds without sacrificing its considerable charms on "Shadow by Your Side," an excellent second...

Beach House, "7'' (Sub Pop) When is a number just a number and when is it much more? Seven is a mystical digit sometimes representing perfection and it appears in grand notions like Seventh...

There's always something magical that happens when a piece of music finds the perfect words to go with it, or vice versa. It is what translates either poetry or a melody into song. And it's with...

Does a lifetime of smoking weed produce chronic bad breath by the time you're a few days short of 85? Most of us will never know, but Willie Nelson suggests it does in one of the warm, quiet...