Ken Tucker

Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker says Dylan both infuses the songs with his personality, while also allowing them to be heard anew.

Few bands re-form with their power as intact as Sleater-Kinney have; fewer still brag about their, and make the claim something more than a brag.

Ty Segall's new EP comes on two 7-inch discs that double as a pair of 3-D glasses.

Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker says Black Messiah is as adventurous as any fan could hope for.

Making new sounds while staying mindful of the past is a common theme in the Fresh Air music critic's year-end list.

Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker says that one of the best books he's ever read about punk rock is a new memoir by Viv Albertine.

It's not too early to be releasing Christmas albums, and Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker has been listening to a lot of them.

A batch of lyrics that Bob Dylan wrote in the late 1960s were given by Dylan to producer T-Bone Burnett, who came up with the idea to have some contemporary musicians set the words to music.

Womack, who had the hit "I Hope You Dance," hasn't released a new album since 2008. The sound of her new album The Way I'm Livin' is different from the country music dominating the industry.

Taylor Swift's fifth album is called 1989, the year she was born. For the past few years, she's been the young queen of country music, by far its biggest-selling artist. But 1989 sidesteps country music entirely to become Swift's first pure pop album. Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker has a review