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
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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,