As the world slowly reopened after — well, amid — the pandemic, musicians naturally moved beyond themselves this year to ponder ideas of identity and community. The best found deep connections between ...

Silk Sonic, the late DMX and Olivia Rodrigo rocked some of the best songs of 2021. Whether it was the retro-soul romance of Silk Sonic, the thrashing teen spirit of Olivia Rodrigo or the grand divorce ...

Just five country artists held the Top 10 spots on Billboard's list of most-streamed country songs in 2021, with all but one of those artists landing multiple songs on the list. They were an assembly ...

Four brilliant debuts. Three fearless follow-ups. Two redefining chapters. And a comeback that came out of nowhere. As the music world tentatively switched its amplifiers back on in 2021, it was a ...

In a year that brought major – and in some cases, majorly awaited – releases by reliable chart-toppers, it would seem an effortless task to pluck out 10 of the best albums of the past 12 months. But ...

Many Latin artists emerged from the first throes of the pandemic taking bolder risks than ever before in their work — whether fashioning genres anew or confronting injustice at home and abroad. Here ...

This piece was originally published on “Rolling Stone” India. The best thing about K-pop’s evolution, from its beginnings in the late Nineties to the powerhouse genre it is today, is the increasing ...