Get back at red America -- with kinky sex, pretentious French movies and a hasty divorce.

The sad, dangerous sounds of the Dirty Three capture the wisdom of pain and experience.

From Taylor Swift to Ne-Yo, these albums and songs are guaranteed to make the rest of the year merry and bright

The queen of summertime sadness is back with another soundtrack for our late-August blues

Sheeran's song and the one he's accused of copying have a lot in common—but it could come down to "feel"

It all started before I was born, the day a 20-year-old Dylan began work on his first studio album

Samuel L. Jackson sings the blues?

Rock 'n' roll fills the void at South by Southwest

Since when does family fun include a sadomasochistic Santa and leggy reindeer?

Jazz has venerated its own traditions for so long that the music seems stale and the audience is gone. Now what?

Spending the day with Beethoven and why Mystikal really is like James Brown. Plus: Songs from the Silent League, Devendra Banhart, Mocean Worker, and Call and Response.

In an age when movie musicals are mostly children's cartoons, Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge" brilliantly reinvents the genre and opens the door to a new cinematic style. So why didn't the critics get it?

The rock critic and author of "Christgau's Consumer Guides" picks six great books about the history of popular music.

Steve Earle, once dubbed the "hillbilly Springsteen," learns that back roads "never carry you where you want 'em to."