UK pressing of her 2007 album features one bonus track: 'A Moment Like This'. Leona was the winner of the 2006 season of the UK's talent show X-Factor...more
These days success is often judged less on sales and more on a TV audience's pantomime reactions to unreal situations. Top of this list is the X Facto...more
There is something innately British about Katie Melua’s appeal, her style reminiscent of former '60s UK legend Lulu, especially in songs that combine ...more
Britney may not have much on her mind but at least she pockets so deep she can buy the best producers, hiring Bloodshy & Avant, the Clutch and the...more
The Backstreet Boys struck a defensive stance on their 2005 comeback, titling it Never Gone as if they hadn't been dormant for about five years. Never...more
It's been called Nickelodeon's answer to Hannah Montana, but The Naked Brothers Band is more like a latter-day Partridge Family, only you get the sens...more
Vanessa Carlton spent much of her second album, Harmonium, running away from the pop success that her 2002 debut, Be Not Nobody, and its inescapable h...more
The Grammy-nominated, twenty-something, pop-classical phenomenon's fourth studio album is an expertly accomplished entry to the holiday marketplace. N...more
Only his fourth studio album, NOEL finds Josh Groban already tackling that canonical mainstay of the adult contemporary singer, the Christmas album. A...more
Despite her appearance in the 2006 film Cheetah Girls 2, Raven-Symoné is nowhere to be found on the group's third studio album, TCG (nor was she on th...more
One Chance is not really an opera album at all and the millions of people who bought it thinking they were buying into a slice of high culture got an ...more
In 2005, James Blunt was everybody's favorite overnight success story. In 2007, he's the guy who's making rock meaningful again. All the Lost Souls,, ...more
The Very Best of Diana Krall collects a nice cross-section of tracks the pianist/vocalist recorded beginning with her 1996 breakthrough album, All for...more
The irony inherent in Obligatory Villagers, the shortest of Nellie McKay's first three albums, is that it's her most difficult to understand, comprehe...more
