Music
All-Time High (And Low) Scores
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Upcoming &
Recent Releases
75
Alberta Cross
70
The Album Leaf
69
Alkaline Trio
66
Animal Collective
84
Animal Collective
50
Athlete
82
Beach House
81
The Besnard Lakes
75
Kasper Bjorke
65
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
64
Dan Black
75
Mary J. Blige
75
Blockhead
79
Blood Red Shoes
70
David Bowie
64
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
70
Broken Bells
65
V.V. Brown
72
The Brunettes
71
Basia Bulat
78
Carolina Chocolate Drops
79
Johnny Cash
79
Chew Lips
82
Chicago Underground Duo
79
The Chieftains Featuring Ry Cooder
76
Citay
66
Clem Snide
77
Clipd Beaks
78
Clogs
66
Cold War Kids
75
Easton Corbin
80
Crazy Heart
90
Crime In Stereo
70
Jamie Cullum
63
Fyfe Dangerfield
72
Delphic
89
The Dillinger Escape Plan
64
Dinowalrus
77
Drive-By Truckers
59
Editors
71
Eels
74
Efterklang
83
Eluvium
82
Erland And The Carnival
57
Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now
63
Excepter
78
Field Music
76
First Aid Kit
68
Josephine Foster
82
Four Tet
71
Nils Frahm
77
Freeway & Jake One
75
Frightened Rabbit
82
Fucked Up
64
Peter Gabriel
79
Charlotte Gainsbourg
80
Galactic
67
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
73
Ernest Gonzales
59
Good Shoes
79
Gorillaz
70
Adam Green
79
Patty Griffin
76
Groove Armada
67
H.I.M.
43
Hadouken!
73
Harvey Milk
68
Juliana Hatfield
67
Jimi Hendrix
88
High On Fire
80
Hot Chip
66
The Hot Rats
88
Ray Wylie Hubbard
54
Hurricane Chris
76
Jaga Jazzist
76
Jaheim
68
jj
79
Freedy Johnston
54
Nick Jonas And The Administration
57
Ke$ha
66
Alicia Keys
74
The Knife In Collaboration With Mt. Sims And Planningtorock
63
Lady Antebellum
65
Dawn Landes
82
Lawrence Arabia
74
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
82
Liars
72
Lightspeed Champion
37
Lil Wayne
82
Lindstrom & Christabelle
68
Little Boots
78
Local Natives
75
Los Campesinos!
67
Lostprophets
65
Ludacris
72
Magnetic Fields
74
Massive Attack
58
Katherine McPhee
60
Tom McRae
66
Daniel Merriweather
76
Pat Metheny
72
Midlake
64
Holly Miranda
79
Allison Moorer
83
Motion City Soundtrack
53
Mudvayne
65
Mumford & Sons
55
Never Shout Never
85
Joanna Newsom
81
Scout Niblett
76
Nneka
75
Oh No Ono
70
OK Go
71
Omarion
77
Owen Pallett
84
Pantha du Prince
77
Past Lives
84
Pavement
77
Phantogram
65
Pit Er Pat
86
Polar Bear
64
Priestess
69
Quasi
77
Corinne Bailey Rae
71
The Red Krayola With Art & Language
81
Fionn Regan
77
Retribution Gospel Choir
57
Martin Rev
64
Rjd2
63
Rogue Wave
82
Jack Rose
77
The Ruby Suns
78
Sade
77
Gil Scott-Heron
80
She & Him
77
Shearwater
69
Blake Shelton
84
Shining
68
Shout Out Louds
80
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
75
The Soft Pack
80
Spoon
63
Ringo Starr
68
Story Of The Year
71
The Strange Boys
74
Strong Arm Steady
78
Surfer Blood
60
Tape Deck Mountain
82
These New Puritans
71
Robin Thicke
76
Tindersticks
82
Titus Andronicus
72
Toro Y Moi
63
Josh Turner
81
Vampire Weekend
79
Laura Veirs
69
Via Audio
79
Butch Walker And The Black Widows
59
The Watson Twins
69
We Are Wolves
66
Kanye West
64
Wetdog
51
The Whigs
67
White Hills
79
The White Stripes
72
The Whitefield Brothers
68
Wu-Tang Clan
75
Xiu Xiu
78
Yeasayer
77
You Say Party! We Say Die!
63
Young Money
61
Rob Zombie
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed albums.
New Releases:
Added 19 March 2010
Standing On Top Of Utopia
by Kasper Bjorke
The latest release for the award-winning Danish music producer is only his second full-length album. [Electronic/Dance]
The Alphabet Of Hurricanes
by Tom McRae
The Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter releases his first album on the Cooking Vinyl label. [Rock/Alternative]
I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone
by Crime In Stereo
This is the fourth album for the hardcore rock band from Long Island. [Rock/Alternative/Punk]
European
by Sambassadeur
The Swedish pop band named after the Serge Gainsbourg's song releases its third album. [Rock/Indie/Pop]
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Added 17 March 2010
Peepers
by Polar Bear
The Mercury Prize-nominated experimental jazz band releases its fourth album. [Jazz/Experimental]
Hillbilly Bone
by Blake Shelton
The second EP album for the country singer features a duet with Trace Adkins. [Country]
Be Brave
by The Strange Boys
The follow-up to their 2009 debut full-length sees a new lineup, with Mika Miko's Jenna Thornhill and Seth Densham joining, while Darker My Love's Tim Presley also appears on this release. [Rock/Indie]
Presidence
by Excepter
The Brooklyn band's latest album is a two-disc release featuring live studio recordings and live performances. [Rock/Alternative/Live]
Added 16 March 2010
Fly Yellow Moon
by Fyfe Dangerfield
The debut album for the Guillemots singer-songwriter was produced by Adam Noble. [Rock/Indie/Pop]
The Big To-Do
by Drive-By Truckers
The debut on ATO Records leans more toward rock than the last studio release for the Athens, Georgia, band. [Rock/Alternative]
In The Dark
by The Whigs
The third album for the Athens, Georgia rock band was produced with Ben Allen and features new bassist Tim Deaux. [Rock/Alt-Country]
Under Great White Northern Lights
by The White Stripes
The live album features recording from the duo's summer tour of Canada in 2007 which was also filmed for a documentary of the same name. [Rock/Alternative/Live]
Added 12 March 2010
Quarantine The Past
by Pavement
With the band reunited and touring in 2010, here comes a 23-tracks greatest-hits compilation chosen by the band members. [Rock/Alternative]
Fire Like This
by Blood Red Shoes
The second album produced by Mike Crossey for Brighton's Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell was recorded on analogue tape but still retains its punk influences. [Rock/Alternative]
Tapestry Of Webs
by Past Lives
The debut full-length album for the rock band featuring members of Seattle's The Blood Brothers was produced by Steve Fisk. [Rock/Experimental/Indie]
White Hills
by White Hills
The latest album for the New York-based indie rock band was recorded in three days at Oneida's studio and Oneida's Kid Millions provided the drumming for the recording. [Rock/Indie]
Added 11 March 2010
Broken Side Of Time
by Alberta Cross
The debut full-length album for the band led by Swedish-born Petter Ericson Stakee and Terry Wolfers was produced by Mike McCarthy. [Rock/Alternative]
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
by The Besnard Lakes
The indie rock quartet led by music producer Jace Lasek and his wife Olga releases its second album on the Jagjaguwar label. [Rock/Indie]
San Patricio
by The Chieftains Featuring Ry Cooder
The concept album about a group of Irish US soldiers who deserted to join the Mexican army during the Mexican-American War was an idea by The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney and co-producer Ry Cooder. [World/Folk]
Battle Of The Sexes
by Ludacris
The latest album for the actor/hip-hop artist features guest appearances from Eve, Flo Rida, Lil' Kim, Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, and Trina. [Rap]
Added 10 March 2010
Beat The Devil's Tattoo
by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
With new drummer Leah Shapiro (who replaced Nick Jago), the rock band from San Francisco work to mix its rock side with the country/acoustic sound they revealed in 2005's Howl. [Rock/Alternative]
Valleys Of Neptune
by Jimi Hendrix
The 12 unreleased recordings by rock legend Jimi Hendrix include new versions of songs that were under consideration to be included on a follow-up to the 1968's "Electric Ladyland." [Rock/Blues/Psychedelic]
jj no 3
by jj
Until jj signed with Secretly Canadian to release its second full-length album, the identity of the Swedish duo was unknown to the industry at large. [Electronic/Indie/Pop]
The Brutalist Bricks
by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
The Ted Leo-led rock band moves to Matador Records for its sixth album. [Rock/Punk]
Added 9 March 2010
Broken Bells
by Broken Bells
This is the debut album for The Shins James Mercer and producer Brian Burton (aka as Danger Mouse). [Rock/Indie]
The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
by Frightened Rabbit
The third studio album for the Scottish indie band produced by Peter Katis is its first with new member Gordon Skene. [Rock/Indie]
Plastic Beach
by Gorillaz
The third album for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett animated group features guest appearances by Snoop Dogg, Kano, Mos Def, De La Soul, Gruff Rhys, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Fall's Mark E. Smith, Little Dragon, Lou Reed, Bobby Womack, The Clash's Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon. [Rock/Electronic/Alternative]
Tomorrow, In A Year
by The Knife In Collaboration With Mt. Sims And Planningtorock
The Knife, along with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, created a 90-minute opera about Charles Darwin. [Electronic/Dance]
Sisterworld
by Liars
The fifth album for the trio was recorded in Los Angeles with Tom Biller. [Rock/Experimental]
The Monitor
by Titus Andronicus
The first full-length album on XL Recordings for the rock band from New Jersey was named after a warship that fought during the American Civil War. [Rock/Indie]
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