As far as we know, Kendrick Lamar isn't releasing a record in 2018, meaning that everyone else will get a shot at making the best album of t...

The CD has quickly become the punchline of the music industry, but as 2017 proved, everyone might be laughing a bit too soon. Despite the...

It's been another strong year in Canadian live music, with plenty of memorable performances from acts near and far, big and small, across al...

Write what you know, as the trope dictates, and most artists do to some extent. But this year, a number of high-profile musicians took that...

For most Americans, patriotism is a default; even internal criticism often comes from a place of "no one hits my little brother but me." But...

Artists responded in different ways to tumultuous recent events. Some turned up the party, some expressed their rage outwardly, while others...

This year, Lizzy Goodman chronicled the 2000s indie rock revival in her excellent book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in...

"Has-beens shouldn't present awards to gonna-bes," Oasis's Noel Gallagher once famously said after accepting an award from INXS's Michael Hu...

Women's empowerment wasn't just the theme of 2017, but a movement that shaped and changed the political landscape and longstanding social st...

As our annual rollout of genre-specific album lists for the Best of the Year — which so far has covered the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, Top 10...

Anger is always in vogue, but this was an especially momentous year for punk and hardcore, bearing witness to some of the most boundary push...