The Best Metal of 2015
In a year rife with division, one band brought metal fans worldwide together like no other.
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The 30 Best Album Re-Issues of 2015
The music world saw amazing reissues from all over the genre map, spanning rock titans to indie upstarts and experimental to folk.
The Best Pop Albums of 2015
This wasn't just a great year for pop music, it was the year when pop music was solely responsible for nearly all of 2015's best albums.
The Best Hip-Hop of 2015
No year in hip-hop was as eclectic as 2015, representing different gender identities, sexualities, geographies, worldviews, and genre infusions.
The Best Jazz of 2015
A baker’s dozen albums that remind us that jazz remains alive, growing, thriving, and powerful.
The Best Country Music of 2015
In country music, the old and the new are never that far away from each other. They’re at least on speaking terms.
The Best Indie Pop of 2015
In 2015 indie pop, there are recurring appearances by the Dunedin Sound, brevity, the changing of the seasons, and the spectre of childhood that hangs over our adult lives.
Pop Will Eat Itself: On PC Music’s Twisted Art
PC Music has been a source of controversy since the Internet-based label's inception. Those conversations might help shine light on the way the Internet is changing the way we talk about art.
Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed: Music in a Post-9/11 World
The attacks of 9/11 may have caused a noticeable shift in the lyrical content of musicians and even sonic changes in the short term, but, in the end, normalcy finds a way to settle in.
The Best Hopes to Break Out in 2015
This vibrant gang of musicians is approaching 2015 from all different angles. Some are still quite new to the music game, while others take the new year on after rising from a breakup.
The Best Progressive Rock of 2014
From idiosyncratic tales of dastardly aliens to concept albums about a mysterious demon, prog maintained its reputation for eclecticism in 2014.