New Music Releases

This blonde and bubbly "American Idol" alum makes for an unlikely source of the kind of old-fashioned countrypolitan albums we used to get regularly from Dolly...

"Feel the Sound" is a playful effort that comes from an ease with pop hooks and power-pop chords, a knowledge of how to employ a steady beat that owes more to Feist...

"Old Ideas" is Leonard Cohen's first album of new material since declaring bankruptcy in 2005 due to his ex-manager's alleged embezzlement.

Joe Cocker got a kind of subliminal boost with young TV viewers last year when Josh Krajcik took Cocker's gravelly vocal style to the runner-up spot on "The X...

On this sequel to his 2008 "Soul" covers album, the vocalist takes on another 11 classics with highly skilled reverence.

Is "Born To Die" any good? Well, at 15 tracks, it’s as puffy as the singer’s oft-debated lips. Many of the songs tread the same lyrical territory (good...

On "Resolution," frontman Randy Blythe still growls his guts out while his bandmates hammer away at economy-sized grooves that suggest an extreme-sports version of...

It's a good time to be new. Meet 17 acts whose time is now and whose debut albums will win your ears in 2012, from Willow Smith and Azealia Banks to Brent Anderson...

Dozens of previews of the 2012 albums to watch for in the year ahead, including Madonna, Tim McGraw, Green Day, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and more.