The metal world is as vast as ever, and 2024 was full of countless great albums from all across the metal spectrum, by bands from all over the world. We included some of our heavy faves on our list of ...

Trends change, but I’ve never in my lifetime seen the thirst for punk music die. It shows up in surprising ways, like when Olivia Rodrigo gets arenas full of impressionable kids singing along to punk ...

In a lot of ways, 2024 became the year that music changed everything. From genre-bending masterstrokes to unexpected cultural disruptors to an explosive rap war that kept everyone on their toes, this ...

Bright Future opens with “Real House,” an achingly intimate reflection on Lenker’s childhood and relationship with her mother. The song’s demo-like feel — with plenty of room tone and breathing sounds ...

Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications. Whereas competitors are in a hurry to get their list up before anyone else, in late ...

LOS ANGELES -- Rolling Stone Magazine has released its list of the Best 100 Albums of 2024. From country to hip-hop, the list has a variety of genres represented from artists ranging as up-and-coming ...

The erstwhile Year of the Woman keeps looking like it’s turning out to be the Century of the Woman, as popular music goes … and there’ll be no complaints about that when we have a surfeit of superstar ...

Now that it's 2025, we wanted to give a shout out to the most-streamed new rock album of 2024 on Spotify — but there's a catch. To determine which new album garnered the most streams in 2024, we ...

As we wrap up our coverage of the year in music, we are publishing lists of the music loved best by individual members of NPR Music's team. For more, check out the full team's picks for the 124 best ...

An underground Boston rap supergroup. A klezmer clarinetist. A Berklee band on the rise. An unknown young R&B singer. One of the most popular singers in the nation. The year’s best local albums are a ...

(NEXSTAR) — The year is quickly coming to a close and with that comes a cascade of year-end lists. While 2024 was a great year both in amount of music releases and their quality, some albums stuck ...

This year’s best music, our critic thinks, defied conventions of genre and doctrine, showing how hybrid and fluid the art has become. Chappel Roan; Tyler, the Creator; Willie Nelson. Unlike the rest ...