With “Talk Dirty” and “Wiggle,” Jason Derulo has two of the biggest hits of the year, a pair of playful R&B club bangers that have ended up everywhere from barbeque playlists to a commercial for the Lifetime show Devious Maids. Going further in the latter direction, the singer recently covered…    

Ending months of speculation about their uncertain future, Joy Williams and John Paul White, the Grammy-winning duo better known as the Civil Wars, have announced that their musical partnership has officially come to an end. On indefinite hiatus since late 2012, the pair released a statement Tuesday, in which Williams…    

The label that fueled raves with “hardcore” dance music in the Nineties and has served as home to artists like the xx, Vampire Weekend, Basement Jaxx and Thom Yorke in the 21st century is celebrating its silver anniversary with a compilation of some of its most vital recordings. Pay Close Attention…    

Whether country music tributes succeed or fail, they almost always err on the side of caution – keeping it trad even when saluting artists who mixed it up. Let’s cheer Shooter Jennings, then, for an EP dedicated to the late great George Jones that surprises with synthesized twinkles and bass…    

Spoon have spent the past two decades proving that minimalism doesn’t need to mean thinking small. Throughout their eight albums, the Austin band has stuck with a bedrock sound built on chugging guitar, crisp hooks and frontman Britt Daniel’s wryly incisive vocals. It’s what Spoon have done with that sound…