#MusicBlog

In Five Star Spotlight, we root around in our archives to dust off and dig into albums upon which our reviewers have bestowed the coveted five-star rating. We'll cobble ...

The AllMusic 5-star rating is not easy to come by. This best-of-the-best ranking should be seen as being among the best of that genre. This is an album that is one of the top ...

For many fans, Mike McCready will always be linked to the explosive rise of Pearl Jam and the larger Seattle movement that reshaped rock in the early ‘90s. But throughout ...

We're back with classical music reviews! Thank you all for the kind and supportive messages after the passing of James Manheim last October; they were very appreciated. We ...

More than four decades after the release of their landmark self-titled debut, the Violent Femmes remain one of alternative rock's most singular success stories. Blending ...

For a while now on many album and artist pages, we've had embedded streaming players for Spotify, Amazon Music, and (on album pages) Apple Music, where you can listen to full ...

Few musicians have navigated the worlds of progressive rock and pop quite like Geoff Downes. As a founding member of Asia and a member of Yes, as well as one half of the ...

The early 1990s alt-rock explosion produced no shortage of influential guitarists. For example, Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, My ...

A common refrain during the first Trump presidency was "With so many people upset, where are the protest songs?" By no means did musicians remain totally silent, there were a ...

While YouTube may have killed the MTV star, we look back at some of our favorite music videos that caught our eye on the channel. "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails Back in ...