As a '90s kid who spent hours with a Walkman in the backseat of a car, an appreciation for the sonic narrative has stuck — that same patience, nuance and attention to detail can be found in my ...

From sweeping orchestral scores to retro mash-ups that trigger memories of fusty arcades, music can make the difference between a great game and an amazing one. It helps set the tone and carry the ...

I’ve never been particularly strategic about listening to new music; I tend to pursue it in arbitrary bursts or to let it float into my life in whichever way it can. I’m not even sure I could impose ...

Sifting through the music I listened to the most this year, I’ve failed to locate any kind of nucleus, perimeter, through line or binding agent. I hear songs about hope, despair, partytime, cataclysm, ...

Indie is a genre that encompasses so many different styles of music, and indie artists didn’t fail to give us a range of releases in 2022. We got a comforting and lengthy effort from Big Thief, an ...

Soprano Julia Bullock's affecting solo debut, with its breathtaking spin on a deep cut by the enigmatic Connie Converse and a sublime rendition of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, traces the ...

Four of our critics weighed in on their favorite local albums from 2022. When you crowdsource a list like this, it can be hard to find a throughline. But each person’s choices tell their own story.

Another year is almost finished and with fewer than four weeks left in 2022, digital services are in full swing presenting users with their year-end recaps, from most-watched videos to most-like pics ...

While videos from powerhouses like BLACKPINK and NCT 127 were highly anticipated, others (like rookie group NewJeans) crashed through the doors without warning and became viral hits within days. And ...

Turns out 2022 was one of the most exciting years for music videos in recent memory. Musicians like Taylor Swift and Megan Thee Stallion continued to step into their It Girl bag and pushed visual ...

I always love a really huge-feeling year, with new albums from some pop music titans who lived up to however long it took to hear new music from them. Beyoncé’s latest was everything I hoped for: ...