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The 25 Best Rock Albums of 2024

The 25 Best Rock Albums of 2024

As always, rock was a guitar-led extravaganza in 2024 with artists drawing from an ever-widening musical well. These are the 25 best rock albums of the year.

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 So Far

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 So Far

The 50 best albums of 2024 offer sublime music as major artists return with new work and brilliant new sounds bubble up from the underground and worldwide.

The Vaccines Get Back to Basics on ‘Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations’

The Vaccines Get Back to Basics on ‘Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations’

The Vaccines’ new LP is a proverbial back-to-basics affair that’s all the better for it. Packed with ten punchy hook-laden songs, it’s a great-sounding record.

Best New Songs: Bartees Strange, Matilda Mann, Bakar

Best New Songs: Bartees Strange, Matilda Mann, Bakar

The PM Picks playlist spotlights the best new songs across the varied genres we cover. Today features Bartees Strange, Matilda Mann, Bakar, DRIIA, and Shobsy.

The Vaccines Go All Out Pop on ‘Back in Love City’

The Vaccines Go All Out Pop on ‘Back in Love City’

The Vaccines’ Back in Love City is their most convincing attempt yet at convincing the world they are a pop band that just happen to use guitars.

The 75 Best Songs of 2011

The 75 Best Songs of 2011

Nostalgia Alert! Jump back a decade and enjoy the best songs of 2011. They are headlined by a synthpop classic, a massive hit from a hot diva, pristine harmonies of a young band headed for greatness.

The Vaccines Make a Poppy Comeback with ‘Combat Sports’

The Vaccines Make a Poppy Comeback with ‘Combat Sports’

On album number four, British pop/rockers the Vaccines get back to doing what they think they do best. Much of the time, they're right.

Sziget Festival 2017: 25 Years of Love, Part 1

Sziget Festival 2017: 25 Years of Love, Part 1

The iconic week-long festival in Budapest -- possibly the most diverse cultural event in the world -- welcomes its 8-millionth visitor and celebrates a quarter century of love and freedom.
The Vaccines: English Graffiti

The Vaccines: English Graffiti

Once touted as the Next Big Thing, the English band have done even better and become their own thing.

Bubbling Under the Top 75: The Vaccines – ‘Come of Age’

The Vaccines – “I Always Knew” (video)

The Vaccines: Come of Age