A seemingly straightforward, upbeat rock track from the Beatles instead that tells a bleak story of discontentment.

‘Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx: Live in Los Angeles’ worked as a career-spanning concert retrospective, but something was missing.

With “Rock ‘n’ Roll Again,” Blackberry Smoke got my toes tapping. There’s not much more you can ask for from this type of song.

This is a review of ‘The Healing Blues,’ a special compilation of great oroginal blues songs to benefit the Greensboro, NC-area homeless.

‘What I Heard’ is a fresh and original approach to organ jazz that only the alto sax avant-garde legend Oliver Lake can conceive.

Long-time frontman Ian Gillan says Deep Purple’s recent resurgence was keyed in part by the arrival of Don Airey.

Lydia Salnikova shares her new delight with ‘New Heart’, a smaller arrival than usual, but another bundle of joy nevertheless.

James Taylor, even at 66, takes the stage with a voice as clear and recognizable as if you were playing one of his early albums.

Alison Moyet’s return to a synthpop has been triumphal — a culmination of everything she began as part of Yaz.

Omer Avital’s ‘New Song’ is a finely crafted synthesis of Middle Eastern, Afro-Cuban and American soul-jazz that’s world music without being self-consciously so.