Imaginary Cities puts a throwback vibe into a modern context on its new “Fall of Romance,” a dreamily peculiar piece of pop provocation.

Those who didn’t get the dance album they wanted from Daft Punk’s new “Random Access Memories” might be happy to settle for Disclosure’s “Settle.”

Harry Connick Jr. is a jack of all trades and a master of some on his new “Every Man Should Know.”

Almost exactly 16 years ago, the Spice Girls released their breakthrough hit “Wannabe” in Britain, when the members of the new U.K. girl group Little Mix ranged in age from 3 to 5. And most of the Little Mix audience ...

“Here’s Willy Moon” sounds like the byproduct of a laptop musician with a short attention span.

The traditional rock genre has been eroding for years, dismantled by the advent of subgenres and the growing demands of music lovers who expect more than what a group of men can produce with a guitar, bass, drums and singer. ...

Daft Punk’s new “Random Access Memories” is ridiculously self-indulgent. But … indulge them.

Alpine’s “A Is For Alpine” is as clean and fresh as the smell of a pure alpine forest, but it’s too much work to get there.

On New Politics’ single “Harlem,” the band from Copenhagen embodies a young and lighthearted Green Day performing something of a mash-up of The Knack’s “My Sharona” and Toni Basil’s “Mickey.” The group punctuates its near-perfect pop confection with an irresistible ...

Just about everyone wants to feel good about themselves, even if society in general has disdain for their lifestyle, and music has long been an effective means to rally the disenfranchised. For example, although they built their genre on hyperbole ...

Airbourne’s “Black Dog Barking” is a celebration of obnoxious hard rock music – crass and clichéd lyrics, rote guitar solos, obligatory scream-along lyrics ... In other words, it’s great fun.

Some might shudder to learn ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog drafted a producer of Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson to helm her new solo release, “A.” But they might also be surprised to learn Faltskog is less than a decade older than ...

The London trio More Like Trees jumped the gun with its debut full-length album, “Roots, Shoots & Leaves.”

Party bands have been a guilty pleasure since ancient times. And maybe the Nashville-based Here Come the Mummies have been around that long.

Given that Sam Amidon slid a sly remake of R. Kelly’s “Relief” into his 2010 album of covers of traditional hymns and folk music (“I See the Sign”), it’s no surprise to hear him taking a stab at Mariah Carey ...