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The art-punk duo touches on its speedy skater roots on a thrilling new album. If the propulsive riffs on Everything in Between drive a few softies from the room, the songs have served their purpose.

Tucker, a founding member of the band Sleater-Kinney, is back with a new group, The Corin Tucker Band, and an album called 1,000 Years. Rock critic Ken Tucker says the record has an "air of heavy but often beautiful melancholy."

This week saw two big music releases: a new album from pop baritone Josh Groban and the new download from mash-up genius Girl Talk. Music critic Tom Moon offers his thoughts on two very different albums.

s Wall Street worries about the effects of high inflation and a potential recession, company forecasts will give investors a better sense of where the U.S. economy may be heading.

The city of Highland Park is held a candlelit vigil Wednesday night at city hall to honor the victims killed during the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade.

Goldwax, a label which issued some of the greatest soul records ever made in Memphis, is almost completely unknown. Given the quality of what it released, it had very few hits, but its legend has lived on. Ed Ward reports on the label's impressive run from 1963 to '70.

Beginning his career as leader of The Mavericks and later as a solo artist, singer-songwriter Raul Malo has long been a fixture in alternative country. But Malo's new album, Sinners and Saints, is a nod to his impressively wide range of influences.

When Spain invaded the Americas in the 15th century, the cultural collision caused reverberations on both sides of the Atlantic. A new recording by Jordi Savall and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo turns an ear to the musical results of that clash.

Unlike Marvin Gaye or James Brown, Johnson never had massive success, in spite of a prolific career. A new box set, Syl Johnson: The Complete Mythology, compiles more than 80 recordings from the late 1950s through early 1970s.

Tiyiselani Vomaseve is a pair of sisters who employ hauntingly oblique harmonies in "Na Xaniseka (I'm Suffering)." The song works in no-nonsense techno tradition, while representing one of the freshest "new" sounds to arise in African music in a long time.