All last week at In Review Online, we presented our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums from the first six months of the year. In this fourth…
All this week at In Review Online, we’re presenting our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums that saw release during the first six months of the…
All this week at In Review Online, we’ll be presenting our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums that saw release during the first six months of…
All this week at In Review Online, we’ll be presenting our takes on some notable (and less notable) albums that saw release during the first six months of…
On February 23rd, Craft Recordings issued remasters of three classic Isaac Hayes albums, 1969’s Hot Buttered Soul and 1971’s Shaft and Black Moses. Each has…
The best songs and albums released over the last 12 months found a way to subvert a hopeless political reality, to move and inspire us…
It’s way too late to call this a “halftime” feature (we were busy watching a whole lot of asian movies), so let’s just call it an end-of-summer(-ish) survey of some of 2017’s best…
Continuing from last week’s film coverage, InRO now turns its focus to highlighting memorable music releases in 2017 so far. This includes a labeled “playlist”…
Big Sean wants you to realize how important I Decided. is: From the ominous intro of pouring rain to the voicemail interludes throughout, this project…
Through a career that’s spanned 16 mixtapes (four of them released commercially), three label deals (Cash Money Records, 1017 Records, and 300 Entertainment), and yet still no…
If Damien Chazelle’s recent film La La Land essentially uses its every frame to try and justify its pastiche nature, through a sense of disenchantment, then…
In a year most of us would rather forget for one reason or another, 2016 was welcomingly giving when it came to dispensing albums from…
Just another year gone by—except songs seemed particularly vital for getting through these last 12 months. Not that you need me to tell you, but we lost…
It’s safe to assume that not many were all that ecstatic when Soulja Boy and Bow Wow announced their new project together, the mixtape Ignorant Shit. The…
“One of these days, I’m going to erase all the tapes in the world. Tomorrow I may do it. All the Frank Zappa masters: nothing,…
“Who said it was easy?/They can never stop we” sings the most put-upon recording artist of the last decade — an artist who’s never stopped…
If there were a kingdom for party music, brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jimmi of Rae Sremmurd would be its anointed princes. The two came…
This was the year when the biggest artists on the planet spent more time than anyone’s patience would allow teasing albums that never came. Kanye,…
It’s true, we didn’t really cover music all that extensively in 2015 (unless reviews of a 10-disc set of live Brad Mehldau material and a 4Minute EP…
One of the brainiest guys in jazz, Brad Mehldau is likened to classical composers as often as he is boppin’ piano men; he is famous…