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Short version: if you're not listening to this album, you should be. The Zac Brown Band have dropped one of the best albums you'...

Let me begin with a disclaimer that I'm sure many will use as ample reason to completely disqualify this review: before watching The New...

Some one-hit wonders are just that - they release a single song off a single album, and then disappear into the ether, never to be heard of ...

Short version: it's a short review, because there's really nothing to say about it. While there are some signs of promise, there...

Short version: it's good but just shy of great. R. Kelly is always a compelling performer, but it feels like he was on autopilot for...

Short version: you know what, this is, for once, the easy part. This album is a soulless, worthless, desperate cash-in by a punk band th...

Short version: an album that's bitter, detached, and genuinely unpleasant to listen to. Worse still, the entire exercise comes acros...

Short version: even by the low, low standards of dance music, I can't recommend this album. Easily in contention for one of the wors...

Short version: Yeah, I know that this review is late, and I should be talking about Chris Brown. Fuck that, I don't care, I just saw t...

Short version: an intriguing, but flawed album from a band I can recognize is good, but I've never quite liked. In this review, I tr...

Short version: an indie folk/jazz singer/songwriter that you've likely never heard of, but who you definitely should be listening to....

Short version: in which I finally get a chance to vent about rap metal and nu-metal (yes, it's been long in coming), and I get the c...

Short version: well, it's okay. Realize that I've never been the biggest Spider-Man fan, but I will say that certain elements (...

Short version: it's a retro review that finally gives me the chance to vent on a genre I haven't talked much about. Suffice to ...

Short version: it's a glorious disaster of a film, both parody and completely straight. There's no surprise this film is failin...

Short version / opening: I don't know who to blame for Justin Bieber. Or what to do with him. And from his newest album, I can say this...

Short version: a very good collection of singles about sex that unfortunately lack the coherence to be a truly great album. Still, outs...

Short version: a promising album with moments of true brilliance, but hampered by unnecessary guest stars, compromised production, stud...

Short version: a frustrating album with some interesting ideas and a few stand-out tracks, let down by some annoying production, haphaz...

Short version: it's incredibly weird and the mix of the psychedelic and avant-garde will throw some people off, but in terms of bea...