There’s a famous “Peanuts” cartoon panel, long circulated as a meme among music nerds, in which the Schroeder character, bearing armloads of LP, explains to Lucy, “Buying records cheers me up… ...

Metal, there is a lot of it. If this is the first and last time that you’re checking in on metal this year, that’s my grand pronouncement, my state of the style address. Please scroll ahead and dunk ...

I think people here are way too lenient. I don’t even think FTBC deserves a full 10, no matter what Pitchfork thinks. But to each his own. The next 10 album going back would be Idler Wheel – Fiona ...

Here are the 5 best doom metal albums of the 2020s, chosen by Ohio's atmospheric doom quartet Frayle. This third record is an extension of what Frayle have been so exemplary in executing, even ...

In a year that felt lodged in a stagnant fog, country music kept moving. Perhaps because there's nothing more tailor-made to pandemic times than songs that can be played on an acoustic guitar and tell ...