With his flat cap, fully-grown beard, and husky Ray LaMontagne-esque set of pipes, 25-year-old Londoner Alex Clare could quite easily pass for another member of the nu-folk brigade, but proving that appearances can be deceptive, his debut album, The Lateness ...

Described as the Swedish answer to the Pierces, sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg, aka First Aid Kit, blend autumnal folk and wistful '60s Americana, and have gathered a pretty illustrious following since their cover version of Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain ...

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals' self-titled 2010 album raised the band's profile. It traded heavily on their concert strengths, and while not perfect, it more or less shored up their reputation with fans and spread their rep globally. The Lion ...

The full-length debut from Melbourne-based Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes, 2012's Baby Caught the Bus features the ensemble's swaggering mix of old-school soul, doo wop, R&B, and jump blues. Centered around the sultry, powerful vocals of singer Clairy Browne, ...

David Byrne and St.Vincent's Annie Clark are both artists with wide-ranging appetites for diverse sounds and collaboration, so perhaps it was inevitable that they would work together. Recorded at Water Music in Hoboken, New Jersey, Love This Giant also boasts ...

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals' self-titled 2010 album raised the band's profile. It traded heavily on their concert strengths, and while not perfect, it more or less shored up their reputation with fans and spread their rep globally. The Lion ...

Infectious electronica-pop project Owl City returns with The Midsummer Station, the act's fourth album and third for Universal Republic. After jettisoning onto the charts and into mainstream culture with 2009's breakthrough hit "Fireflies," Owl City main man Adam Young produced ...

The third studio album from Texas-based, post-grunge/emo-metal outfit Flyleaf is also the band's last outing with longtime vocalist Lacey Sturm, who announced her amicable departure from the group just prior to New Horizons' street date. More streamlined than 2009's erratic, ...

Rock opera and punk are usually two mutually exclusive musical styles. Then again, Green Day has never followed any rock rulebook, so it's not entirely surprising that the trio crafted a punk-rock opera that takes the Bush administration and its ...

"Push" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. On YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU, Matchbox 20's debut, vocalist/lyricist Rob Thomas leads his band down the same path as Counting Crows, ...

Principally recorded at Rumbo, Can Am, The Hook Studios, Los Angeles, California. Additional personnel includes: Jon O'Brien (programming); Mystic, Rashida Jones (background vocals). Soul Infused Alternative Rock From So.Cal. Personnel: Adam Levine (vocals, guitar); Ryan Dusick (vocals, drums); James Valentine (guitar); Jesse Carmichael ...

Perhaps this is what a techno artist would create to incite monks to dance: innocent grooves, sacred texts. Until, there enters another breathy, sensual woman with sultry French talk. By now there's a compelling dance groove, which builds for a ...

Sounding at times like a more laid-back G. Love (without the rap tendencies), Johnson celebrates the simple pleasures and asks the big questions with the childlike innocence that only someone living in a literal paradise could muster. "Banana Pancakes" is ...

PARACHUTES won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. Recorded between November 1999 and May 2000. Personnel: Chris Martin (vocals); Jon Buckland (guitar); Will Champion (drums); Mark Pythian (computer). Audio Mixers: Chris Allison; Michael Brauer. Recording information: Matrix (11/1999-05/2000); Matriz (11/1999-05/2000); Orinico ...

"Plush" won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal." The group that put San Diego, California, on the musical map, Stone Temple Pilots released their debut album with little fanfare, and caught the public eye only after ...

San Francisco's 4 Non Blondes burst onto the national scene with their massive, neo-hippie anthem "What's Up" from their debut Bigger, Better, Faster, More? Although they failed to recreate the single's success, the album, as a whole, is a fairly ...

Considering that Marilyn Manson never pandered to the Top 40 set, LEST WE FORGET can't rightfully be dubbed a greatest-hits record; it serves more as a reminder of the man and his group's 10-year blitz of ghoulish, gory, industrial rock. ...

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. 16 Biggest Hits may be missing some noteworthy songs, but it does provide an excellent summary of Johnny Horton's Columbia recordings between 1956 and 1960. Since it does contain the majority of ...

Track Listing: Make It Mine; I'm Yours; Lucky; Butterfly; Live High; Love for a Child; Details in the Fabric; Coyotes; Only Human; Dynamo of Volition, The; If It Kills Me; Beautiful Mess, A;

Precocious Brit Florence Welch fired a bullet into the head of the U.K. music scene in 2008 with the single "Kiss with a Fist," a punk-infused, perfectly juvenile summer anthem that had critics wiping the names Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, ...

Audio Remixer: Michael Brauer. Recording information: AIR Studios; Hammersmith Apollo, London, England. Personnel: David Gray (vocals, various instruments, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, piano, harmonium, organ); Tim Bradshaw (various instruments, guitar, electric guitar, keyboards); McClune (various instruments, omnichord, drums, percussion, background vocals); Robert ...

Bands that look to the '60s and '70s for inspiration are nothing new in the realm of rock music -- it seems every year, a new group appears that sounds like they thoroughly studied and regurgitated their parents' album collection. ...

As made clear by the White Stripes, the COLD MOUNTAIN soundtrack, and his lauded album with Loretta Lynn (VAN LEAR ROSE), Jack White approaches all of his music with full commitment, and the Raconteurs is no exception. Not quite a ...

Recorded between 1994 & 2003. Includes liner notes by David Wild. Producers include: Don Gehman, Don Was, Pete Masitti, Spencer Proffer, Mark Williams. Compilation producers: Hootie & The Blowfish, Karen Ahmed. Hootie & the Blowfish: Darius Rucker (vocals, guitar, dobro, percussion). Personnel: Mark Bryan ...

Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow follows Director's Cut, a dramatically reworked collection of catalog material, by six months. This set is all new, her first such venture since 2005's Aerial. The are only seven songs here, but the album ...