Morgan Heritage, "Here Come the Kings" (VP Records)   With a batch of songs that feature their signature vocals mixed with a nice blend of traditional roots music and love songs,...

In the span of American pop music, few performers have gone as unrecognized as the backup vocalists who harmonize and contextualize the songs of many a heralded lead musician. With "20 Feet From...

Laura Marling, "Once I Was An Eagle" (Ribbon Records)   "I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young," sang Laura Marling on her debut single, "New...

The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with "This Is the End," an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young...

"Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns" (Simon & Schuster), by Lauren Weisberger   Who said fashion is all about the next new thing? Author Lauren Weisberger revisits her...

Hezekiah Walker, "Azusa: The Next Generation" (RCA/Verity Records)   It seems like a celebration of faithful endurance on Hezekiah Walker's 14th album, "Azusa: The Next...

It has been a black eye to Hollywood that throughout this, the unending and increasingly repetitive age of the superhero blockbuster, the comics' most iconic son has eluded its grasp like a bird...

"The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future" (Oxford University Press), by Michael Levi   In recent years, the seemingly dry subjects of oil and...

Alison Moyet, "The Minutes" (Cooking Vinyl/Metropolis Records)   Alison Moyet is not trying to impress you. True to her punk roots, the English artist didn't make "The...

In Pixar's "Monsters University," a prequel to 2001 "Monsters, Inc.," our expert "scarers" to be — the wisecracking pipsqueak Mike Wazowski and the burly James...