I was 14 years old. Yesterday, I bought six more CDs — mostly off-peak Van Morrison albums — adding to a collection that I have never counted, for the number would induce an untold mix of ...

Kiss became superstars with Alive! So let’s break it down: the 75 best albums of 1975, complete with a playlist of key tracks from each LP. Some of these albums are famous classics beloved ...

And other times, they’re just desperate for a hook and wind up stealing one from a Corn Flakes jingle and placing the shitty tune on the same Beatles album as “A Day in the Life.” ...

On Jan. 1, 2000, the average cost of a CD was about $18, which meant if you wanted to legally own 250 albums, it would set you back about $4,500. Napster existed and it was pretty obvious even ...

There are, of course, lots of major artists whose albums are only rumored, and so we didn’t include them here, but suffice it to say that we’re still expecting to see the knowledge that stars ...

Over 800 More Albums & EPs To Expect In 2025 4batz’s Thank U, Jada A Flock Of Seagulls A. Blomqvist’s Pohjola A.M. Architect’s Avenir Abdomen’s Yes, I Don’t Know Abel Selaocoe’s Hymns ...

Speaking of legends, RIP Steve Albini, whose final album with Shellac appears here. He helped build this whole genre from the ground up and the world is an even more irredeemably compromised place ...

Kendrick’s decisive victory over Drizzy culminated in one of the year’s best rap albums, GNX, overshadowed only by Doechii, the latest talent to emerge from Lamar’s former label TDE.

In November, a month before her death, Allal performed her final show, “Friends Sing Korin Allal,” at Jaffa’s Barby Tel Aviv club, along with musicians Shomi Shabat, Riki Gal, Ehud Banai ...

And up-and-comers announced their arrivals with stellar, often outside-the-box, albums, including Kaitlin Butts’ Oklahoma!-inspired concept LP, Shaboozey’s Western hip-hop, and Zach Top’s Ni ...

The commercial success of Latin music has become a double-edged sword. On one side are industry boosters chattering about constant growth and revenue exceeding $1 billion; on the other, critics ...