Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music The 25 Best New Musical Artists of 2016 By PopMatters Staff / 30 December 2016 The best new artists of 2016 mash up genre dividers and take popular music in new and exciting directions.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music The 10 Best Shoegaze and Dream Pop Albums of 2016 By Ian King / 21 December 2016 Twenty years on, in 2016, shoegaze -- and its demure twin sister, dream pop -- is a continuing presence and influence on guitar music.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2016 By PopMatters Staff / 19 December 2016 Electronic music is one of the broadest-reaching genres by design, and 2016 highlights that as well as any other year on record.
Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music The Best New / Emerging Artists of 2015 By PopMatters Staff / 21 December 2015 There was no shortage of new and exciting music in 2015. From the rise of a major new jazz talent challenging boundaries to ever more experimental R&B, this crop of artists gave us a lot of great music this year.