With 2025 coming to a close, that means we've reached the halfway point for this decade. Difficult as that may be to believe, ...

At certain moments, 2020 felt like a year that might not ever come to an end. Now that it's mostly in our rear view, can a retrospective give a shape to that swarm of weeks and months? Can we make ...

With such a large crop of truly fantastic songs to choose from the past year, I had a difficult time putting a cap on just the ten very best, let alone do a ranking (sorry I only had time to compile a ...

There’s so much we’d like to erase about 2020 — but never, ever the elation, élan, empathy, harmony, rich social commentary and dumb fun that the year’s best music brought us. Yes, we do hope the door ...

A year ago at this time, if you’d have told us that Van Morrison would be single-handedly responsible for nearly a third of a worst-songs-of-2020 list (and that this would not be some kind of weirdly ...

I am not a music critic, but I do enjoy music very much and have tried to keep up on current releases. Having sampled or listened to dozens, if not about a hundred albums in genres across the board, I ...

Chances are, you've been cooped up in the house for the past couple of months and probably don't even know what frickin' day it is, so allow me the honor of telling you: We've *finally* surpassed June ...

His album wasn’t that stellar and was only carried by one hit song. Dua’s album was released around the same time but it’s made into so many lists. I suspect it’s because she kept up the momentum with ...

All three members of Illinois screamo band Frail Body told us about their favorite music of 2020. Trevor of Arizona indie-pop punks Sundressed’s picks include Phoebe Bridgers, Spanish Love Songs, ...

Think of it as a victory lap for arguably the worst year ever. Now that every list-maker with ears has run down the albums and songs that made 2020 a little easier to endure, let’s take a minute as we ...