Cableline's Top 50 Albums

If an artist is only the sum of his influences, can there be room left for original creation? Or is there only endless rot...

When a previously low-key(indie) artist makes an album which becomes universally acclaimed and feels thoroughly organic an...

It all starts in Chicago.  And with Tom Waits bellowing like a cyclone, the concern you begin to feel hardens and develo...

There are some artists, and albums for that matter, that feel inherently familiar. And as much as we'd like to tell ou...

I'm no expert on jazz, nor can I quote the rhythmic notations which Peter Brotzmann or Anthony Braxton use to commit...

There were many who cried foul in regards to The Field's last album, Yesterday And Today , for the distance it seemi...

How do we deal with artists who refuse to be fenced in with easily assigned labels? We have a natural inclination as lis...

Have you ever dreamed that you were walking though a forest, down a dirt path, until a giant mechanical spider blocked y...

Who knew that the best rap album of the year would have more in common with Miles Davis than with Kanye West? And make n...

The pastoral beauty and grace of Fleet Foxes’ debut album hasn’t diminished in the 3 years since its release. The warm v...

Far from the bedroom beginnings of her debut album as tUnE-yArDs, Merrill Garbus took the sometimes stumbling step into ...

Far be it from me to argue with the diehard Mountain Goats fans who've canonized his earlier work and decried the popp...

After releasing an universally acclaimed album, in this case his sophomore album Person Pitch , I would imagine that Noa...

It’s a given that PJ Harvey has created some of the most intensely personal albums of the last 20 years. Her biting lyrici...

When you're one of the most prominent faces in a newly-dubbed backlash heavy genre, you better make damn sure that y...