A war movie turned survival thriller, Mine has a premise so high-concept and compelling you’d assume it would be hard to screw up.

Buzz has long been building around London four-piece The Big Moon, and their debut demonstrates it wasn’t misplaced enthusiasm. The album starts already revved up, the all-female band led by Juliette Jackson flying straight into 2015 single “Sucker,” the first of a dozen sculpted tracks.

Nothing about this year’s Isle of Light felt difficult. Just as it should be.

If you have a bag stuffed with money that needs looking after until you get out of prison, it’s probably best not to leave it with a gambling addict.

No one in recent memory has crushed a late-night TV performance the way Future Islands did with “Seasons (Waiting on You)” on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2014, in support that year’s album, Singles.

Any time a famed director like Werner Herzog makes a new movie, it is bound to come with preconceived expectations.

With Jaguar Ride, electric eels guitarist Brian McMahon puts his story to paper, but it’s not like you might think.

The New Pornographers’ first release on their own Collected Works label and without longtime mainstay Dan Bejar (also of Destroyer), but also with new drummer Joe Seiders as a permanent member, Whiteout Conditions continues very much in the same vein as 2010’s Together and 2014’s Brill Bruisers.

As the chief chronicler of glam, punk, and even hair metal, the many iconic photographs taken by Mick Rock comprise most of the illustrated history of rock and roll as we know it.