She declared, this “ain’t a Country album” but “a ‘Beyoncé’ album” — positioning herself in opposition to the genre’s rigid power structures. And yet, she made the year’s best ...
This year was one big stress test that presented artists with a choice: Face uncomfortable realities or serve distractions to the audience. Pop music turned inward and looked backward while hip ...
It was a pretty good year for the genre, as the Top 15 Rock Albums of 2024 shows. Among the albums highlighted below, which were chosen by the UCR staff, are veterans of the field returning from ...
6," in which Kendrick fondly remembers coming up with fellow TDE rappers Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and ScHoolboy Q before explaining he left the label on good terms. To close the album out, he brings it all ...
Think of all the drugs you haven’t tried yet. Your life has only just begun. Such is the spirit of Brat, an album that argues that messy, melodramatic existentialism is inevitable, but so is the ...
Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of ...
There was a week in mid-October when The Quietus’ release schedule spreadsheet was overflowing with bounteous goodness, with over ten albums by artists we’re partial to out on the same day. This was a ...
What is the best metal album of each year since 1970? Come find out! We've sifted through the best of the best from over half a century of metal, enjoying fierce debates along the way while making ...