No matter the kind of people in your circle of friends, it’s pretty normal to hear people talking about how there’s not much good new music nowadays, and ...

This was a banner year for proof of that, and here’s 40 albums from the world of indie rock and alternative by artists who’ve been making music for at least 30 years, many of them for much longer. All ...

"I loved Julia Sabra’s Natural History Museum—it was released at the end of the year and is quietly devastating. Her lyricism and sensitivity in timbre and harmony is akin for me to the great Linda ...

All-in-all, though Eilish, 22, has little to prove — owing to her nine Grammys, two Golden Globes, and two Academy Awards — ...

Nirvana's Nevermind has become only the ninth release to spend 700 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, and only the fourth ...

2024 proved that this is Knocked Loose’s world and that we are all just living in it, the brutally heavy, Grammy-nominated ...

Below are three very different approaches to crafting moody classics. First, Echo & the Bunnymen use hazy language and ...

Slim Dunlap, the second and final lead guitarist for the '80s/'90s alternative band the Replacements, died at age 73.

I go to a lot of shows, so I expected this answer to take a lot of soul searching — but there was something unforgettable about this concert featuring local NPR Tiny Desk Contest-fave Jesus Gonzalez ...

The musical lineup: Teahouse (progressive alternative rock), Psychofluid (progressive doom sludge), Ichenen (alternative rock) and Alexa Murphy (“shadowy R&B Soul”). 7-11 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20. $10 in ...

Music is the gift that keeps giving. That’s why during the holiday gift-buying season, the options seemingly are endless, with an array of recently released titles from famous acts. In other ...

Our staff dove back into the last 12 months of music, applied their exacting standards and came up with these 10 albums as ...