Rock

On the earnest and angsty rock ballad, WILLOW embodies the rock star she was destined to be.

The New Orleans punk band buzzes with the energy of a fly trapped in a jar, as shouted complaints ping against the glass with no resolution in sight.

He's a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who took up a side hobby as a ballistic missile defense specialist — and added counterterrorism expert for good measure.

On "This Is Why," Paramore's sound is somehow aqueous and taut, showing its three members barreling ahead at the most thrilling heights of their musicianship.

Tradition and modernity coexist peacefully within Son Rompe Pera, where punk collides with the cumbia the band grew up playing.

Interpol may have been central to a post-9/11 New York scene, but it also might be considered one of the biggest Mexican rock acts of the last two decades.

Reed died in 2013. A new collection, recorded in 1965, captures the earliest-known versions of some of the Velvet Underground's best known songs, including "Heroin" and "Pale Blue Eyes."

Kurt Wagner's Nashville collective has always been an expression of absolute possibility. The Bible, his best album in a decade, points that instinct at life's most inescapable truth.

Along with his sense of humor, that kind of tenderness and perspective is the most arresting part of Tim Heidecker's latest album, High School.

As a songwriter, Alex Giannascoli has long taken a mutating, playfully distorted approach. But on his new album, full of songs about morality, he astutely focuses every magic trick in his discography.