These lists highlight the best in music, film, books, television, and games.
The 20 best pop albums of 2023 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.
This year’s best country albums spring from hard-country bands to traditional true believers and from alternative country renegades to pop-country superstars.
The best global music comes from places around the globe and then goes to others. If you find something new, those connections therein have stretched farther.
This has proved a fantastic year for heavy music and metal, with masters impressing and newer artists shining. These are the best metal albums of 2023.
In best metal albums, Cruciamentum ignite the old-school death metal flame, Morne merge hardcore and post-metal, and Autarkh commit to industrial machinations.
Nihilistic undertones shade these six neo-noir films, which remain loyal to the classical era’s hard-boiled moral obliviousness
During their heyday, Supertramp created a run of progressive-pop albums so intricate and irresistibly catchy, as to redefine what AOR radio could sound like.
The best metal albums feature Cirith Ungol with their heavy doom tank, Krieg back to black metal fundamentals, and much more that October has to offer.
There is no genre with as rich a history of songs about many forms of death–by natural causes, murder, suicide, war, accidents, and so on–than country.
Forget “Monster Mash”! These ten memorable campfire frightfests should deliver a solid foundation for your scary-yet-sophisticated Halloween.
In his brief folk singer-songwriter career, Harry Chapin’s philosophy of symbolic action challenged the American status quo on behalf of those suffering from indifference.
September’s best metal albums are really all about death metal. Not only the volume, but the sheer quality of these works is nothing short of astounding.
