Music Reviews

If 2010 has produced a slab of summer-friendly rock candy more inviting than "Go Do," it has yet to reveal itself. courtesy of the artist hide caption

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In "Starting," Matt Pond PA offers up melancholy and emotional warmth in equal measure. courtesy of the artist hide caption

When Hot Clip slides into the chorus of "Take It In," the effect is unequivocally glorious. courtesy of the artist hide caption

Earthology is a world-music pastiche that took Whitefield Brothers 15 years to assemble. courtesy of the artist hide caption

Nouvelle Vague makes "Master and Servant" more deeply sexy than Depeche Mode could have imagined. courtesy of the artist hide caption

James Whitbourn's Luminosity expands the experience of classical music beyond the edges of the traditional map of classical style. Hewholooks/Wikimedia hide caption

In "Arkansas Sound," the rapper Arkansas Bo does what he can to put his home state on the hip-hop map. courtesy of the artist hide caption

"Easy to Love," from Ivan and Alyosha's debut EP, is a sweetly booming ode to love as a feat of endurance. Jenny Jimenez hide caption

Von Freeman and his working band play weekly in Chicago, but it took a German jazz festival to bring out a recording of that group. Michael Jackson/Premonition Records hide caption

An eerily quiet groove, loaded with murmured vocals, gives way to bright electric piano in "Round and Round." courtesy of the artist hide caption