Rock music

In excess virtue lies danger, or at least limits to pragmatic action—it's a lesson hard learned by anyone disillusioned by the erosion of youthful mythologies. Strict fealty to a fxed ideal of identity doesn't do us any favors as adults. Loyalty, the third and fnest album yet by The Weather Station…

Beautiful Machine is the seventh studio album from New Zealand's premier rock band. Months before release, it had 45,000 Big Day Out punters bouncing from stage to stalls in Auckland, where its heart-stopping first single, "One Will Hear The Other", has put their past airplay in the shade. "We're…

Cheap Xmas: Donald Fagen Complete is a box set featuring five discs worth of Fagen albums and non-LP material. The Nightfly (1982), Kamakiriad (1993) and Morph the Cat (2006), Fagen's jazzy "Nightfly Trilogy," will be included with the set, as well as the disc of non-LP material that appeared in…