Aside from a certain orange overlord with tiny hands assuming power, it wasn’t a bad year, guys, in the music world. It’s depressing as hell that a campaign of anti-Trump 30 tracks in 30 days, […]

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As with our 50-best single narratives, artists came out of the woodwork in furious fashion once with projects that all restored our faith in humanity, and ways in which to diffuse the nonsense happening by […]

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As with our 50-track, best-of-2015 mosaic, so go some of the finest voices we heard silencing, or in some cases loudening, the world’s consistent attempt to destroy itself. Kendrick Lamar, our pick for Lyricist of the Year, stretches […]

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Like 2014 before it, here we are in another year with another landmark statement on humanity by Kendrick Lamar again, Father John Misty sending up America and the state of the system that spawned him, undercut by some […]

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Here we are again, completely circling around the sun, the same as it ever was like a man named Byrne once said. And perhaps you may tell yourself, these are not your beautiful lyric choices. These […]

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50 always seems like an arbitrary barometer for these year-end lists. Like the democratic contest host always says, ‘we would like to include them all’, but these here words are weapons people, and a cast […]

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Likewise with our corralling of a set of 10 hearts that put pen to paper like bosses on our favorite front-to-back records this year, so goes another set of 50 that may or may not […]

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Another year, another onslaught of wreckids with some words and sounds that blew our collective minds. As with 2012, we’ve ditched number rankings and went alphabetical, making sure you realize that another hilariously genius chapter […]

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There’s the exclusivity of having a limited-run piece of wax, sure, that’s fun to check the market price on Ebay like a music nerd stock trader, because you wouldn’t dare buy to sell, would you? […]

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From ex-lover tirades to primal basic needs, the Prince of Pop’s sequel to his initial 20/20 Experience not only seeks to “Take Back the Night,” but to do so in filthy funk and R&B fashion. […]

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