‘The Bridge’ review: Sting makes an anticlimatic return as he sits on the verge of creative bankruptcy

Exploring a multitude of concepts and themes, Sting bundles up his established interests in pop, R&B, folk and jazz while featuring his quintessential pop-rock sound on the contemplative remotely recorded new album The Bridge. Written in the year of pandemic, The Bridgehas…

“Juno” Album Review: Remi Wolf’s debut album is unpredictable and vibrant

Remi Wolf’s debut album is an explosion of color, and I don’t just mean the music videos. Listening to Juno is like being in an arcade room, jumping excitedly from one machine to another, simply having to try them all.…

‘Talk Memory’ Review: BADBADNOTGOOD kick back into gear on latest album

Talk Memory, the fifth studio album from Toronto jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD, phones home to many of the band’s influences and past greats in the genre such as Sun Ra and Charlie Parker. Very much an old-timer’s jazz album, the production…

Album Review: Harborcoat Releases ‘Joy Is Elusive’ LP

The new Harborcoat album brims with retro tangs and luminous jangly guitars resulting in music simultaneously dazzlingly good and infectiously alluring.

‘In These Silent Days’ review: Brandi Carlile finds a new meaning in the otherworldy haze of introspection

From the outside, it seems like it’s been a hell of a three-plus years for the Washington stater Brandi Carlile, both as a human and an artist: the rip-roaring success of the country supergroup The Highwomen, multiple Grammy nominations and…

Album Review: Jon Patrick Walker Releases ‘The Rented Tuxedo & Other Songs’

Authentically alt-country yet laced with country-pop and indie-rock, ‘The Rented Tuxedo & Other Songs’ by John Patrick Walker offers stylish and swanky vocals.

‘Eternal Blue’ review: An echoing, melodic, emotional catharsis through life and love from Spiritbox

The new album, ‘Eternal Blue,’ by Canadian metal band Spiritbox is an echoing, melodic, emotional catharsis through life and love.