Apple Music- H&S Magazine’s Best Artist Of The Week- Taylor Swift- Red (Deluxe Version)
The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania
Apple Music- H&S Magazine’s Best Artist Of The Week- Akon: Freedom
With Freedom Akon delivers a set of songs so accessible they work well whether played at top volume in a night club or as background music in a doctor’s office. The disarmingly simple music-box melodies of “Sunny Day” and “Be
Apple Music- H&S Magazine’s Best Artist Of The Week- Nicky Jam- Album- Fénix
Debuting in the ’90s as a tough-talking reggaetón prodigy, Boston-born Nicky Jam went on to reinvent himself as a romantic, bringing his melodic bars to a string of fizzy bops. So while it opens with an old-school blast of snarling