Music Genres

Rock and roll is alive and well - and didn't need a Zeppelin clone to prove it in 2018.

The latest album from the celebrated English early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico, 'In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in Exile,' is a beautiful sequence with works by John Dowland, William Byrd, and their contemporaries – and a decidedly melancholy affair.

Blogcritics premieres Whisperado's new lyric video. 'Bang One Out' is the title track from the NYC roots-rock band's upcoming EP.

In France in the early 18th century, minuets, sarabandes, and gigues were written to be literally danced to, sometimes by popular professional dancers. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations recall those days with music by Telemann and Jean-Fery Rebel.

This memorable set from Dizzy Gillespie's longtime drummer is one of the best small-group jazz albums of recent vintage, full of rhythmic play and meaty assertiveness with a Latin lilt.

If you pine for the heady days of Joni Mitchell and Poco, then Pale Mara should soothe your soul.

'Three Songs' by Katie Mullins is not to be missed. It’s glorious!

With 'Helix Pattern Blues,' Hemhora and the Glass Band provides catchy rhythms and deliciously quirky alt-rock.

'Lake Placid Blue' is a gorgeously laid-back album with soft energy and grand lyricism.

Composer Yevgeniy Sharlat takes Bach's English Suite No. 2 as a starting point, and engineers energetic rhythmic surprises, ear-catching counterpoint, and busy, angsty drama in a prismatic work of accessible modernism.