Soul-searching meets classic folk rock as Mayer takes on his recent past
The Shins‘ 2004 microhit “New Slang” established one of the more pliant templates in 2000s pop ”“ Feist, Bon Iver and Mumford & Sons all owe something to its frumpy intimacy and strummy, mumbled moodiness. ...
It’s been three years since the noisiest little prog-rock band in Texas put out a record, but they haven’t been slacking. Their newest is a “future punk” experiment based on a comic-book villain (Solomon Grundy) ...
Trent Reznor’s new score is three hours of ominous, oddly alluring atmospheres
★★ More cheeseball rock ballads about really meaning it, man
★★★ DGC/Interscope The hitmaking punks return with grown-up problems and an artier brand of bounce
★★★1/2 The Chilis charge ahead by revisiting their freaky punk-funk roots (Warner Bros.)
Our picks for the best songs to celebrate the end of the school year