Allison Russell’s Beautiful, Harrowing ‘Outside Child’ Is a Musical Memoir Nonpareil: Album Review

The Mountain Goats, “Dark in Here” (Merge)“Dark in Here” was recorded in 2020, that calamitous year of fear and mistrust. It shows.High anxiety fills the Mountain Goats' new album, the product of sessions held in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, just as the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The man who revealed that former President Bill Clinton met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email servers has died.

HGTV’s biggest renovation project to date is apparently a big hit, delivering strong ratings across several key demos, the network said Friday.

Mike Wass In an ever-changing musical landscape, where tastes change with lightning speed and stars fizzle out as quickly as they are discovered, Maroon 5 is a constant. Since the group’s 2002 debut, Adam Levine and company have thrived in the physical, digital and streaming eras.

Spain — another magical beach music scene — he knows what he is talking about.“Albania is the hidden gem of Europe," he added.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt wasn’t all that long ago that Michelle Zauner, the creative force behind shoegaze-pop act Japanese Breakfast, was singing about the idea of becoming “Jimmy Fallon big.” The track from 2017’s “Soft Sounds from Another Planet” may have seemed like wishful thinking at the time, but Zauner’s tongue-in-cheek lyric came full circle in March when the band hit “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to make Japanese Breakfast’s late-night television debut.The singer

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt is no small understatement to say that David Bowie was at a creative crossroads in 1970 — one that was baffling, possibly even to himself.He began the year essentially as a folksinger coming off of his elaborate first hit, “Space Oddity,” releasing a fey love song to his wife-to-be, Angela (“The Prettiest Star”) before making a drastic pivot into the cerebral proto-heavy metal of “The Man Who Sold the World” album; then closed it out with an odd, hippie-inflected

A.D. Amorosi Posthumous albums, especially ones that were all-or-mostly completed before the artist’s death, are nearly always bittersweet, providing a look not only at what was lost but also what might have been.

Chris Willman Music WriterJason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Valerie June, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah are among the multiple nominees for the 2021 Americana Honors & Awards.

Florida is scheduled to kickoff the Southeastern Conference’s game of the week slate on CBS on Sept. 15.The network announced on Wednesday several kickoff times and dates for the upcoming college football season.Air Force at Navy will be its first game of the season on Sept.

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Travis Baker‘s daughter Alabama made new claims about her relationship with her mother, Shanna Moakler, during her Friday, May 21, Instagram Live. The 15-year-old addressed her fans during the Live session, and alleged that she hasn’t seen her mom, 46, in more than half a year. “If you guys support [Shanna], you can’t — you’re saying, ‘Don’t disrespect the person who gave you life,’ but the woman that gave me life isn’t in my life,” the teen said, per Daily Mail.

Chris Willman Music WriterBlake Shelton doesn’t seem particularly gaunt at any given time, but weightlessness may be the term that best applies to “Body Language,” his first all-new album in four years.

Age Don’t Mean a Thing and 2017’s critically acclaimed, tongue-in-cheek Goin’ Platinum, seems far from ready to slow down.His latest collection of songs, Sharecropper’s Son (★★★★☆), is steeped in blues and soul tradition, bringing a whole lifetime of performance and love of southern musical tradition to bear on an album that brilliantly showcases all of Finley’s strengths.Sharecropper’s Son is autobiographical in nature, inspired by the musician’s upbringing in the rural Jim Crow South.