Superstar releases, or at least great superstar releases, were in short supply in the first six months of 2021, maybe because a lot of our most reliable earners were waiting for the pandemic to crawl ...

The year 2021 was an amazing one for artists in country music. We rounded up four songs that came out in 2021, which are among the best ever written in the genre. “Fancy Like” is one of country ...

Live music began to trickle back in 2021. And recorded music kept doing what it was doing prior to the pandemic, but with a slightly different vibe. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the artists, but the ...

If you pay close attention, you can hear it: there’s a new lushness in the opening banjo twangs, and an extra beat when she sings the lyric “Just say yes.” But the difference between the 2008 version ...

Following a divisively tuneful 2021 album, the California post-metal band returns to its signature sound on its sixth album. But these heavy, soaring songs also hint at unexplored terrain. No score ...