Fleet Foxes' brand of baroque harmonic pop features subject matter ranging from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves.

The surprise companion to the National's April release, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, is the band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20-plus years together, the vibrant, exploratory album is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend its creative process, the National honed most of this...

Wilco's thirteenth studio album was recorded in the band's legendary Chicago studio, The Loft, over a period of two years. The ten new tracks are written by band leader Jeff Tweedy and feature musical performances by the longtime lineup of Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Glenn Kotche, John Stirratt, Pat Sansone and, of course, Tweedy on lead vocals. After a short detour back into their country-influenced roots via last year's Cruel Country double album,...

Amazingly, Saviors represents Green Day's 14th studio album, yet somehow this enduring power trio, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool, and Mike Dirnt, remain devoted to their defiant craft that has fueled their career-long destruction of every boundary bestowed on the genre, and landed three East Bay punks in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. The album was recorded in both London and Los Angeles under the audacious ear and Rock prowess of Green Day's longtime...