With the sudden, surprise release of GNX, Kendrick Lamar sent music editors and writers across the internet scrambling to revise their year-end lists of 2024’s best albums and decide where ...
(“Drug of the Year: Cocaine. Yes, again.”) So let’s break it down: the 74 best albums of 1974. Some of these albums are timeless classics revered around the world. Others are buried ...
We listen to certain albums on road trips with friends and others on rainy days at home alone. The best ones can stir up memories or delineate the seasons of our lives. This year was dominated by ...
The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. They wanted to know where the poetry and the genre fiction were — and ...
Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2024. Each year, quite literally thousands of new records are released within the ever-widening scope of heavy music, from newcomers in the ...
And this year in particular, Latin music pushed through expected forms and showed that it’s at its best and most exciting when acts keep reinventing themselves and moving away from predictable ...
The vibes player Patricia Brennan has impressively built up her sound.Credit...Noel Brennan Across three albums in four years, the vibraphonist Patricia Brennan has built up her sound from a ...
The best releases of the year are overarchingly cerebral and echoing, suited for hermetic subway journeys and bouts of introversion. Here are the 10 strongest electronic records of 2024.