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. ...

The Decemberists' sixth, full-length studio outing finds the Portland, Oregon-based indie rock collective exploring a region that has thus far eluded them. Raised on a steady diet of Morrissey, Robyn Hitchcock, Shirley Collins, and Fairport Convention, The King Is Dead ...

Preceded by the single "Damn This Town," Hiatt's 20th studio album, 2011's Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns, was recorded in Nashville and produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, the Black Crowes). Recording information: Ben's Studio, Nashville, TN. Photographer: David McClister. Personnel: John ...

In an age where rock is becoming progressively more slick and studio enhanced, it's quite refreshing to see a band like White Stripes come up from the underground and play raw, sloppy, and soulful rock & roll the way it ...

Detroit's own "brother and sister" drum-and-guitar duo broke out of local obscurity with their eponymous debut, a primitive garage romp that borrowed liberally from Led Zeppelin, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, various American bluesmen and other rock & roll stalwarts. ...

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 ...

Home School Valedictorian, the Las Vegas-based modern rock outfit Adelitas Way's sophomore effort, polishes the already slick foundation on which the band built their 2009 debut. Bolstered by a radio-ready, appropriately bitter first single, "Sick," a movie trailer-ready, Killers-esque anthem ...

Based out of the industrial, lakeside town of Muskegon, Michigan's Pop Evil specialize in the kind of hard-hitting, relatively simplistic, AOR rock that dominates radio stations with names like "The Hammer" and "The Grind." Cut from the same pair of ...

M83's Anthony Gonzalez took his time delivering the follow-up to 2008's much-loved Saturdays=Youth, but it was worth it: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is a sprawling double album that reaffirms M83's dreamy romanticism while setting off for bold new territory. Gonzalez ...

The Head and the Heart were still a young unsigned band when they released this self-titled debut in June 2010. A mix of Northwestern folk and homespun Americana, the album attracted the attention of several labels. The group wound up ...

Painting their own version of heartland rock & roll with broad, unhurried strokes, Dawes continue carrying the torch of L.A.'s country-rock community -- once dominated by the likes of Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, and Neil Young -- on their second ...

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 ...

3 Doors Down toured throughout 2009, released a digital-only acoustic holiday album at the end of the year, and began work on their next album in 2010. With Howard Benson serving as producer, the guys shuttled themselves between L.A. and ...

Los Angeles-based dream pop/alt-rockers Silversun Pickups tapped Grammy-winning producer Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M., Weezer) for their third studio album. Preceded by the shoegazey, slow-burning first single "Bloody Mary," Neck of the Woods is set for release in spring 2012. Recording information: ...

On their sixth studio album, Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation), the Counting Crows offer up 15 cover version of some of their favorite artists' tunes, ranging from the ubiquitous to the obscure. This album marks ...

Fallen Empires is the sixth studio album from British alt-rock outfit Snow Patrol. Following the success of hit singles such as "Chasing Cars" -- which spent 106 weeks in the U.K. charts -- lead singer Gary Lightbody suffered bouts of ...

Rebelling against mom and dad must be hard when they're dressed in Pixies and MC5 shirts, but if there's one reason that generation doesn't understand this one's taste in rebellion, it's that the sex, drugs, and rock & roll are ...

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 ...

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, ...

This two-fer from San Francisco-based, commercial pop/rockers Train includes the group's 2001 break-out sophomore outing Drops of Jupiter, which boasted the popular title cut, and 2003's My Private Nation, which featured the smash hit "Calling All Angels." ~ James Christopher ...

On Glow, guitarist Kaki King finally returns to the all-instrumental format that brought her notice and acclaim in the first place. This set, produced and engineered by D. James Goodwin, collects a dozen compositions for guitar and a colorful assortment ...

Arriving hot on the heels of a series of Sugar reissues, post-punk pioneer Bob Mould returns with Silver Age, his first album of new material since 2009. Keeping with the sparkling, anthemic sound of his post-Hüsker Dü work, his first ...