4/5 stars Produced by Rob Cavallo, who first made a name for himself in music by producing for Green Day, All That Echoes is Josh Groban’s sixth album, and is sure to delight fans. The collaboration...

4/5 Stars Over the past decade, Canadian twin sisters Tegan and Sara have been making indie rock with a unique, memorable and personal twist. They began by writing folk-rock music, but with the release...

3/5 Stars It is a fairly common occurrence in the music world for a band to change its sound. Whether prompted by boredom, innovation, aging or necessity, musicians must constantly strive to be culturally...

“Moonshine” by Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox 5/5 stars   The third single from Bruno Mars’ new album, which is due out in December, introduces influences from Michael Jackson and...

Everyone has a favorite band. One that can make good days better and can comfort you on the bad ones. A band that has an embarrassingly high number of plays on iTunes and an even higher number of performances...

4/5 stars Band hiatuses can be rough. Some end with the band’s lackluster reunion and a descent into irrelevance, and some don’t end at all. Luckily for fans of The Killers, they belong to a third,...

I still remember the first time I heard Passion Pit. It was New Year’s Eve 2009; I was 18, a senior in high school. The party that night was at an empty Cape Cod beach house, about a two-hour drive...

4/5 Stars Finally, a dance album that the Top 40 DJs can spin to their hearts desires and that will surely be blaring at middle school dances for generations to come.  In Usher’s new album, Looking...

4/5 Stars The cover of There’s No Leaving Now shows a simple blurred picture of a tree, fitting for an album byKristian Mattson, better known by his stage name The Tallest Man on Earth. The band...

Spring has most certainly arrived on campus. The birds are singing, flowers are blooming and people are dressed like it’s 85 degrees, even though the thermostat barely reads 50. But regardless of the...

Jason Pierce is no stranger to the concept of mortality. For a man who nearly died of double pneumonia in 2005 and recently spent months in an experimental pharmaceutical-induced recovery from a degenerative...