Featuring Frank Ocean, Nirvana, Solange, Prince, and more.
Throbbing Gristle, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy: These bands brought the heat
From Arca’s operatic insanity to Klein’s thrashed R&B, these are the year’s most urgent experimental records.
Charli XCX, Courtney Barnett, D.R.A.M., Shamir, Icona Pop, Joey Purp, and more highlight new artists you need to know about.
Our overview of last weekend's Primavera festival featuring photos and set reviews of acts including Patti Smith, Perfume Genius, Mac DeMarco, and Run the Jewels. By Mark Richardson and Jeremy Gordon; photos by Maria Louceiro and Tom Spray.
Taking place in a surreal mini-city in the Arizona desert, last weekend's FORM Arcosanti festival featured acts including Hundred Waters, How to Dress Well, Julianna Barwick, the Antlers, Pharmakon, and Skrillex. Photos by Tonje Thilesen.
Brandon Stosuy breaks down his favorite metal releases of the year, along with year-end metal lists from Zoe Camp, Grayson Haver Currin, Jason Heller, Kim Kelly, Andy O'Connor, and Saint Vitus bar's David Castillo.
Your picks for the year's Top Albums and Tracks, Most Underrated/Overrated Albums, Best Videos, Best Album Covers, and Best New Artists.
This year, our annual list includes exceptional records by Perfect Pussy, Rich Gang, Ex Hex, Lykke Li, Brian Eno, Vince Staples, Caribou, Grouper, Aphex Twin, and a whole lot more.
From Perfume Genius' heroic glam, to Sophie's oil-slick electronic excursions, to Young Thug's masterful weirdness, to Taylor Swift's bulletproof pop, to Future Islands' sweeping synth rock, these are our favorite tracks of the year.
Our creative director Michael Renaud picks out 20 of the most visually striking record covers of the year featuring: a twisted FKA twigs, creepy baby heads, creepier plushies, St. Vincent's all-seeing overlord, bloody guts, and a Waka Flocka mask.
The throat-shredding noise artist talks to Brandon Stosuy about how a medical emergency inspired her new album Bestial Burden, which grapples with concepts about the separation between mind and body as well as the paralyzing inevitability of death.