We just published our list of the 50 best punk albums of 2021, including music from all across punk’s many subgenres, but even 50 is just a small sample size of all the great punk-derived music ...

While we are still battling back from the most unprecedented years in modern history, 2021 was another jam-packed, wild time… especially for all things music. As the world is slowly opening up with ...

Jan 07, 2022 By Mark Redfern Photography by Koury Angelo (CHVRCHES), Shervin Lainez (Japanese Breakfast), Wendy Lynch Redfern (Magdalena Bay), James Loveday (Arlo Parks) For many in America and around ...

“Too much pain,” Young M.A. offers on her second LP, “could barely notice the beauty in things.” Not only did these albums provide comfort and commiseration, they also taught me new ways to listen, to ...

The Best Albums of 2021? My picks from the world of jazz including some Blue Note Tone Poet Series albums you need to own. It’s that time of year again as we approach mid-December to take a hard look ...

Country music singers relied on the hits in creating the best new Christmas songs of 2021. Lee Brice, Brett Eldredge, Josh Turner, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and more recorded Christmas standards for ...

The British singer-songwriter's debut studio album (which won the 2021 Mercury Prize, ICYMI) is t-r-u-l-y a work of art. Listening to this dreamy album is like reading someone's diary...and relating ...

To label a piece of music as "alternative" is to, in some sense, stand in contrast to what the phrase intends to express. Before the rise of the term as a somewhat identifiable genre that took shape ...

Japan’s Kandarivas presents a glimpse into the front lines of the medical systems fighting COVID-19. Band leader Tomoki, a real respiratory doctor (general thoracic surgeon), brings the usual Taiko ...

Tyler, the Creator performs at the 2021 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. (Photo by FilmMagic / FilmMagic for Outside Lands) By signing up, you confirm ...

Pop music is a province of the unsettled. It lives in eras, and its most influential purveyors either adapt to the times or eerily predict them. That is true for music’s production and its consumption ...