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 ...

The commercial success of Latin music has become a double-edged sword. On one side are industry boosters chattering about constant growth and revenue exceeding $1 billion; on the other, critics ...

Are you ready for this year to end? No matter how you’re approaching the dying days of 2024, there’s an album in this list to match your mood. Wrapping up warm for a bitter winter? Consider ...

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 ...

Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed ...

We listen to certain albums on road trips with friends and others on rainy days at home alone. The best ones can stir up memories or delineate the seasons of our lives. This year was dominated by ...

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.

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 ...

In the trunk were the original songbooks for her highly acclaimed debut album, “My 21st Century Blues.” The thief also left with Raye’s only copy of the initial ideas and notes for three or ...

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 ...

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 ...