When I saw that Magna Carta… Holy Grail was nominated for nine Grammys (!), I felt honor-bound to give the album a few more listens after shrugging it off last summer. And, well, I’ll just...
Country music made a huge crossover splash this year, as two of the genre’s brightest young stars, Ashley Monroe and Kacey Musgraves, delivered debut LPs — Like a Rose and Same Trailer Dif...
I’ll just come right out and say it: my love for the Strokes basically begins and ends with their fabulous debut, Is This It. I found their follow-up, 2003‘s Room on Fire, to be pleasant b...
Country may not be my thing, but I dig Kacey Musgraves, and truthfully, she may not even be country, at least not in the traditional sense. Her approach is more melodic — the foundations of the ...