Album Reviews

Eight CDs, one DVD and a whole lotta R.E.M. from over the years.

Fourth Bowie box collects his difficult '80s period.

Arctic Monkeys made their name by being one of the millennium's best guitar-based rock bands. But for their sixth album, they scale back.

Ever since Jack White closed the book on the White Stripes at the top of the decade, he's taken his solo career into deeper and more expansive areas than he ever explored with his band.

Despite a few flaws, 'Pinewood Smile' is a perhaps the best the Darkness have offered up in their second act.

'As You Were' is the best of the three albums Liam Gallagher has released since the breakup of Oasis.

Queens of the Stone Age's 'Villains' constantly switches directions, pushing them further into new levels of sophistication, weirdness and sincerity.

Sparks' 25th album continues their tradition of experimental and witty pop.

Paul Weller's 13th solo album, 'A Kind Revolution,' shows that he never stays in one place too long to get bogged down.

Blondie's new album nods to its past, but keeps its eyes on the present and future.