Randy Lewis

Gwen Stefani "THE SWEET ESCAPE" RATING: 3 SOUND LEVELS "Sweet Escape" puts Gwen Stefani back in the studio with most of her "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." songwriting and production collaborators,...

Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint "THE RIVER IN REVERSE" RATING: 3 SOUND LEVELS This trans-Atlantic reunion of the British rocker with Toussaint, one of the deans of New Orleans pop...

Dave Alvin "WEST OF THE WEST" RATING: 3 SOUND LEVELS Dave Alvin aims high with this album, out Tuesday, devoted to songs largely about what it means to live and...

Snow Patrol "EYES OPEN" RATING: 3 SOUND LEVELS With thickly distorted, deeply rumbling guitars blazing, the British band comes roaring out of the gate on its fourth album. Although "You're...

Keith is more a beer than a wine kind of guy, but just like wine he's getting better with age. "Grain of Salt" is the touchstone on this disc, an...

This group of Beatles U.S. releases, encompassing "The Early Beatles," "Beatles VI," the "Help!" soundtrack and "Rubber Soul," is less consistently exhilarating than the first quartet released last year, but...

On the new disc out Tuesday, Ron and Russell Mael rely on heavily orchestrated string and keyboard-laden settings and choralelike multitracking of Russell's elastic voice, accented by jagged guitars and...

John Rich "UNDERNEATH THE SAME MOON" RATING: 2 SOUND LEVELS The news release for John Rich's debut solo album, recorded and shelved five years before he and songwriting partner Kenny...

Rosanne Cash "BLACK CADILLAC" RATING: 2 SOUND LEVELS Cash has had to deal with the deaths of her father Johnny, her mother and her stepmother all within two years. On...

Ryan Adams "29" RATING 3 VOLUME LEVELS. It's hard to tell through this supremely dark group of songs whether you're listening to a work of art or a cry for...