Superstar releases, or at least great superstar releases, were in short supply in the first six months of 2021, maybe because a lot of our most reliable earners were waiting for the pandemic to crawl ...

As with most years, my favorite albums of 2021 comprise metal and non-metal releases. Likewise, my picks in both cases are from household names and lesser-known artists who absolutely deserve more ...

Live music began to trickle back in 2021. And recorded music kept doing what it was doing prior to the pandemic, but with a slightly different vibe. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the artists, but the ...

In 2021, the grand and majestic rap stars all let us down. Drake made another commercial megalith, an album that dominated charts to an absurd degree, and it was just OK. Kanye West made a vast ...

Pop music is a province of the unsettled. It lives in eras, and its most influential purveyors either adapt to the times or eerily predict them. That is true for music’s production and its consumption ...

The album also features guest appearances by noted jazz singers, rappers and poets, one of whom, Joshua Idehen, sets the tone with a fiery condemnation of white supremacy on an album shaped in part by ...

This past weekend, I saw Show Me The Body make a room full of people go nuts. They headlined a wild bill that also included Candy, Regional Justice Center, Tempter, and the debuting Earth To Heaven. I ...