On Jan. 1, 2000, the average cost of a CD was about $18, which meant if you wanted to legally own 250 albums, it would set you back about $4,500. Napster existed and it was pretty obvious even ...

Loudwire has ranked the 11 best metal albums of 2024. Come see if your favorites from this year made the cut! As we get deeper into the 2020s, one thing is becoming increasingly clear — we're ...

Speaking of legends, RIP Steve Albini, whose final album with Shellac appears here. He helped build this whole genre from the ground up and the world is an even more irredeemably compromised place ...

It includes both full-length albums and EPs, because some of the best punk records of all time are EPs, and it ranges from back-in-action veterans to the hungry young bands that are actively ...

Previously best known for his precocious songwriting abilities, Leon Thomas took leaps and bounds as an artist when he sculpted his new album Mutt, signaling his growth along those lines.

See The FADER's top 50 songs of 2024. Every album on our year-end list has a fearlessness about it. Over and over this year, while the world raged outside, our favorite musicians ventured into new ...

But then she does the unthinkable and creates the best album of her career so far. The 10 songs of Hit Me Hard and Soft hit deep. Some are fun and breezy, like “Birds of a Feather”; “The ...

Then, the Captain of the Hotties, Megan Thee Stallion, flexed her superstar muscles, delivering her best album to date with Megan, brimming with grit, resiliency, and high-powered raps than ever.

artists striking out on their own solo and whatever has fallen in-between since January. Without further ado, here are the 40 best debut albums of 2024. —Matt Mitchell, Music Editor ...

This year’s best music, our critic thinks ... cross-pollinating. Of all the notable albums released in 2024, many of the most original and memorable have been acts of hybridization in one ...

But when an album does have a great cover, it stands out. When that cover’s visually representative of the music itself, it stands out even more. Below is a list of some of the most notable ...

Rappers in the home-recording and streaming era are also more prolific than ever, making the long list of rap albums that came out this year nearly impossible to keep up with, but we did our best ...