Music Reviews

Blue Corn Music •••• Sound ••••

She's been recording for a decade, but Texas singer/songwriter Ruthie Foster was a fairly well-kept secret on the folk/

Capitol Music •••• Sound •••••

Lily Allen gives bad girls a good name.

On her flashy debut, Alright, Still (

Interscope Music •••• Sound •••••

If you read the album title a certain way, No Line on the Horizon sounds pretty funny: Wouldn't that be the

Spill Music ••• Sound •••

There's a certain kind of female singer/songwriter that seems to flourish in New England: thoughtful, emotionally intense, a

New West Music •••• Sound ••••

They've sung and played on each other's albums since the early 1990s, but Written in Chalk is only the seco

Nonesuch Music •••½Sound •••½

It took Elvis Costello (via the 2006 collaboration The River in Reverse) to remind the world