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At the tail-end of 2019, we published a list of the 100 Best Punk & Emo Albums of the 2010s. Making a best-of-the-decade list at the end of a decade is standard practice but the timing does have a few ...

The Highwomen, Tanya Tucker and Maren Morris turned in some of the year's best country albums. For the decade, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves and Jason Isbell proved hard to top. The debut effort ...

No big jazz-pop crossover star broke out in 2019, and nobody hijacked the conversation with an incendiary comment requiring some “OK Boomer” clapback. Jazz stuck to its own steadfast devices this year ...

Equally, acts like YCee, Peruzzi, Adekunle Gold, Reekado Banks and Zlatan have announced albums that are set to drop in the final months of 2019. Here is what we know so far; When quizzed on the title ...

On this very day in 2019, The Beatles’ beloved 1969 album Abbey Road returned to the No. 1 spot on the UK charts. The famed rock album first hit No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart shortly after its release ...

A lot can change in the music industry in five years. An artist’s outlook and creative process can be completely different — as can their degree of mainstream success. La Roux’s album “Trouble in ...

Drawing from prog, electronica, afrobeat and more, UK jazz continued to chart new vistas of expression. The four-horn front line and high-powered rhythm section of London-based septet Nérija provided ...

This list was made by writers, editors and producers at NPR Music operating under two rules: Albums had to be released during 2019 and no lead artist was allowed to appear on both this list and our ...