Ex-Nickel Creek mandolinist Chris Thile continues to lead acoustic string-band music into the 21st century with his witty songwriting and eight-string shredding

77-year-old poet laureate Leonard Cohen merits hosannas for his warmest and best album in 20 years

Evan Rachel Wood and Ke$ha are among the improbable interpreters who score in a 76-song Dylan tribute

Craig Finn's first album under his own name strips away the raucousness to reveal the haunted quality that's always been there

For $200+, you get some of rock's greatest songs performed live on CD, DVD, and vinyl ... and Matthew Weiner and Sandra Oh dancing

Only two of the songs on Winehouse's posthumous collection post-date 'Back to Black,' and they were clearly unfinished, suggesting just how fallow her last years were

Chris Daughtry isn't the only hard-rock-singing fourth-place finalist releasing an album this week

The AMAs' top honoree has a solid document of a tour that memorably married her post-adolescent poetry to gleefully over-the-top pageantry

A veteran soul singer (and Joss Stone's mentor) hooks up with the Roots for an album deeply mired, in the best possible way, in the R&B of 40 years ago

The filmmaker's first musical solo effort has a lot of spooky, character-drive, Vocoder-ized slow blues... and a couple of dance tracks that won't make the Black Eyed Peas lose sleep

On her great new "Four the Record," the Texas firebrand shows off a softer side -- but she's hardly forsaken hell-raising

The frump-pop superstar's third album, '"Someone to Watch Over Me," is a surprisingly tasteful downer