Welcome to another installment of Ask A Music Critic! And thanks to everyone who has sent me questions. Please keep them coming at steve.hyden@uproxx.com. I also appreciate you giving me to ...

Kali Uchis’ latest album, Orquídeas was a major success last year (it was named one of the year’s top 50 albums on the 2024 Uproxx Music Critics Poll). So, good news: Its follow-up is not ...

Critic focused on ideas and issues in and around the world of classical and contemporary music. Education: Emerson College, BFA in Creative Writing; Emerson College, MFA in Creative Writing ...

Music critics said Flack possessed the same intelligence and sophistication for Black women that Joni Mitchell had for white women. “Her voice and music shaped the very fabric of American ...

Its chart dominance was matched by love from the critics. The Times' William Mann described it as a "pop music master-class" and Gramophone magazine's Peter Clayton said it was: "like nearly ...

While the opinions of rock critics have lost that aura of authority they had a few decades ago, and some of the big names, like Lester Bangs, are not even around anymore, their opinions, good or ...

Jon Caramanica, a music critic for The New York Times, called it “an inessential performance” that was “dynamically flat” and “mushy at the edges.” The N.F.L. was quick to respond ...

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It was a pretty poor song and I was never really interested in it." Music critics did not like the song either. In their book, 'The Beatles: An Illustrated Record', Roy Carr and Tony Tyler said ...

“Köln 75” is a minor lark, but it has an infectious spirit, goosed along by fourth-wall-breaking jazz tutorials offered up by a rumpled music critic (Michael Chernus), who whets our appetite ...

Dutch Interior — the LA County-based band of lifelong friends Jack Nugent, Conner Reeves, Davis Stewart, Noah Kurtz, and brothers Shane and Hayden Barton — have released the new single “Beekeeping.' ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...