While this is a great time of year to celebrate the best big songs and albums that jammed the airwaves in 2021, it's also good to shine a spotlight on some vital, underserved songs that deserve your ...

Though we continue to move into a world where genre is an antiquated notion, it’s always fun to focus our year-end efforts on the best each distinct subset of music had to offer. And if there was one ...

“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 local and regional music scene was rich with new releases and breakthrough albums in 2021. And on the national stage, a few bands shredded guitars and banged drums in the name of rock and roll, a ...

The last 12 months have been great for the debut effort in rock and metal music. In fact, there's been a veritable army of significant first albums issued this year. After all, they say you never get ...

The United States was still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic in June 2021, but a few events heralded a return to relative normalcy. Nearly 16 months after COVID-19 effectively put the entire ...

Pop music had a year like no other, beginning 2021 with shuttered venues and ending with an explosion of concerts. Not that music wasn't being made. In the early months of the year, many musicians ...

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 ...

Jay-Z, Tina Turner and Carole King are among this year's inductees. The 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced, and they include six honorees in the performer category: The ...

Rock music was the "first time in American history that the music industry is creating music for teenagers," said author Marc Myers. From theaters to stadiums, how rock 'n' roll changed the live ...