Sam Smith Wears Their Heart on Their Sleeve With the Lovestruck ‘Hazel Eyes’: Album Review

It’s sometimes easy to forget what a massively successful artist Sam Smith is: five Grammys, an estimated 65 million albums sold and nearly 60 billion streams, a James Bond theme and multiple No. 1 singles all over the globe across a dozen-year career. But after three multiplatinum albums that were basically in the sam

Noted conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads the Philharmonica Orchestra on Hopkins' 12 compositions.

Philharmonia Orchestra/Dudamel (Decca) There’s a cinematic flourish to many of Hopkins’ compositions, together with fine arrangements of Welsh tunes and pieces dedicated to family Anthony Hopkins, it turns out, has been composing music all his life. Now, at the age of 88, the Welsh-born Hollywood actor makes his Decca

Music journalism is going to the wall, and places for sensible, well-informed, nuanced takes on the latest releases are dwindling. So we thought we might as well put the final nail in the coffin. Read this month’s previous album reviews here and here. Brandon Flowers Thrasher IslandListen, if you’re going to call your

Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review — Killers frontman goes country  The Times

"When people heard that I was possibly dipping my toes into country... they thought I was going to write Morgan Wallen songs or something like that," says Flowers, who drops Thrasher on Aug. 21