We all enter 2021 facing many challenges, and in the scheme of things this one is pretty minor: Advance notice of album release dates is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. The “surprise drop” that ...

The COVID pandemic continued in 2021, making the presentation of live music difficult, and during a spike in infections, nearly impossible. Over the course of the year, fewer albums than usual were ...

No one knew of the impact one Minnesota native could singlehandedly have on the melancholic R&B world when he released his amateur mixtapes to SoundCloud in 2013. Most chalked down the triumph of his ...

There wasn't much consensus among the nation's music critics about which was the best album of 2021. We'll hear a few of the choices. What was the best album of 2021? Well, there doesn't seem to be a ...

2021 has been a trying year as the pandemic continues to affect the lives of human beings across the planet. It could be said that the saving grace of this year has been the incredible releases of ...

As much as any other year (maybe more), music lovers needed something from the songs and albums of 2021 — to name what was going wrong and to begin sketching the possibilities for how we might ...

It’s been a whirlwind year, one that started as a continuation of 2020’s lockdown, and then saw the triumphant return of live music, and now is ending like it began, with a mass cancellation of live ...

I’m a Chubby super fan. This record is fucking awesome, this band is awesome. I will be very sad if i don’t see them live in 2022. Dead Heat is one of my favorite hardcore bands of all time. This ...

As 2021 comes to an end, there’s a lot to brag about when it comes to queer artists in music. Every year we get more and more queer representation in music, and this year proved that. With new singles ...

Morgan Wallen had the best-selling album of 2021 despite finding himself at the center of controversy for a racial slur scandal. The country singer's "Dangerous: The Double Album" sold 3 million ...