This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed ...
I guess you don't call ‘em albums anymore. I don't know. We're gonna release a song one at a time, but we have a full album's worth of material that we're gonna release over a two-year period.
"I didn't set out to make a Christmas album," Baker told CBC Radio's Weekend AM. The former Hey Rosetta! frontman said Full Rainbow of Light, released last month, came to be inspired by his ...
This was a banner year for proof of that, and here’s 40 albums from the world of indie rock and alternative by artists who’ve been making music for at least 30 years, many of them for much longer. All ...
The Julien Baker/Torres rollout continues. Presumably, these two greats are getting ready to announce a new collaborative album, something that’s been rumored for years. A few months ago, Torres ...
Kendrick’s decisive victory over Drizzy culminated in one of the year’s best rap albums, GNX, overshadowed only by Doechii, the latest talent to emerge from Lamar’s former label TDE.
It’s a proudly left-of-center rock album that is melodically rich, brimming with raw feeling and full of thrilling twists and turns. A naive of Niger, Tuareg desert blues standout Mdou Moctar pe ...
Two decades after digital downloading was supposed to disintegrate the full-length LP ... Here are the 20 albums I loved holding varying amounts of space for this year. The backhanded Charlie ...
But Kendrick wasn’t the only rapper who came through in 2024, even if all his press and outright dominance makes it feel that way. So here they are: the top 10 rap albums of 2024.
Without using any awkward and unnecessary terms like “femcee” or “female rap,” let’s look back at the best hip-hop albums and mixtapes released by women in 2024. In a year without a new ...
The Weeknd will kickstart 2025 with a new album and celebratory concert in California. “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the final chapter in a trilogy that includes 2020’s “After Hours” and 2022’s ...
In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. You could already see that in how the upcoming ...