With the sudden, surprise release of GNX, Kendrick Lamar sent music editors and writers across the internet scrambling to revise their year-end lists of 2024’s best albums and decide where ...

Orrin Evans’s original “Red Door” appears on the trio Tarbaby’s latest album, a record made with no additional featured musicians.Credit...Yana Paskova for The New York Times The pianist ...

Here are my Top 10 jazz/improv albums of 2024. Each of them made my life a little better this year, and I’m hoping they might do the same for you. “Compassion,” by Vijay Iyer (ECM ...

The albums of 2024 hit us hard and soft, all year long. The music world was full of explosive chaos, all over the stylistic map, from the pop espresso on the airwaves to the club classics in your ...

The revered old school (Nick Cave, The Cure, The Smile, Kim Deal) released career-high albums that reasserted their roles as restless pioneers. Rap’s leading lights, both conscious and ...

A springtime gauntlet of weekly album drops by the industry's biggest stars was regularly interrupted by wildly inventive newcomers arriving out of nowhere, underground favorites reaching new ...

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 ...

catalog albums the week's most popular albums across all genres at least 18 months old and that have fallen below no. 100 on the billboard 200, based on multimetric consumption, blending ...

Here is your 2024 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest titles! With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up.

On the heels of her latest groundbreaking album and ahead of the highly anticipated ceremony, one question looms: Will the Grammys finally bestow album of the year upon the megastar? The answer ...