Ken Tucker

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews The Party’s Over by the Smoking Popes which they recorded in 1998 just before the band broke up. It's just been released.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews new albums from The Buzzcocks and Paul Weller, the frontman from the band The Jam. The album titles are Buzzcocks and Illumination.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Up!, the new double CD by country star Shania Twain

He reviews Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill records), a collection of songs Willie Nelson wrote and recorded between 1960 and 1966, hoping to sell them to the big stars of the country era.

Music critic Ken Tucker reviews American Life, the new CD by Madonna.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews The Headphone Masterpiece, the new CD by singer/songwriter Cody Chesnutt.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the third album by singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur. It's called Redemption's Son.

He will give us his take on the best albums of the year, including new releases from Eminem, Missy Elliot and The Hives. He is a regular Fresh Air contributor and he also writes for Entertainment Weekly.

Ken Tucker reviews Original Pirate Material the debut collection by white British rapper Mike Skinner otherwise known as The Streets.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews rapper Paul Barman's new CD, Paullalujah.