Category: Lists

Mitski, Yo La Tengo, Sufjan Stevens, and more It was a great year for charming guitar bands, confessional singer-songwriters, post-punk revivalists, power poppers, and roots

Drake, Sexyy Red, and Lil Yachty made rap sound fun, and artists like Ken Carson and Baby Keem pushed us into new sonic territory While

Almost two-and-a-half years ago, we walked around Chicago rapper Noname’s new LA neighborhood with her — at the time she was working to make her

From Lil Yachty to Olivia Rodrigo, from R&B to indie rock to Afrobeats In 2023, must-hear albums kept piling up at an insane rate. Olivia

Tainy, Diego Raposo, and Valgur turned out bold, outspoken experiments, and artists like Karol G, J Noa, and Grupo Frontera gave listeners honesty and intimacy

Gut-churning doom, hip-hop-influenced industrial metal, avant-garde black metal, thrash for the ages, and so much more This list goes to 11 … and that Spinal

From Argentina to Brazil to Mexico, from Sixties psychedelia to 2000s alt-rock In the beginning it was Elvis, Dylan, the Beatles and the Stones –

“My guitar is not a thing,” Joan Jett once said. “It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.” The guitar is the

Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. But Swift was a songwriter before she

SZA is in the foreground of what the Grammys has dubbed “Progressive R&B” — R&B with deep and palpable influence from other genres, including rap,