Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” —...

Two years after David Byrne collaborated with Brian Eno on the brilliant Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, the former Talking Heads frontman teams with another in-demand producer, Fatboy Slim, on Here Lies Love, a loose concept album based on the life of trendsetting former...

Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh, the eccentric Dallas soul singer’s follow-up to 2008’s New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, leads this week’s pack of new releases. While Part One found Badu dipping into electronic sounds, “Part Two...

Photo: Devaney/WireImage If you’ve noticed a surge in tweenage foot traffic in your local shopping mall today, it must mean one thing: Justin Bieber has a new album out. The 16-year-old Canadian crooner’s My World 2.0, which earned a three-star review from Rolling Stone, has...

Leading this week’s pack of New Reviews is The Big To-Do, the latest album from Athens, Georgia Southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers. The LP is the Truckers’ first proper studio album since 2008’s Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, and finds Patterson Hood and pals once...