Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.
Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.
Critics should stick to their convictions.
By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.