Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed ...

With the sudden, surprise release of GNX, Kendrick Lamar sent music editors and writers across the internet scrambling to revise their year-end lists of 2024’s best albums and decide where ...

Are you ready for this year to end? No matter how you’re approaching the dying days of 2024, there’s an album in this list to match your mood. Wrapping up warm for a bitter winter? Consider ...

Orrin Evans’s original “Red Door” appears on the trio Tarbaby’s latest album, a record made with no additional featured musicians.Credit...Yana Paskova for The New York Times The pianist ...

We listen to certain albums on road trips with friends and others on rainy days at home alone. The best ones can stir up memories or delineate the seasons of our lives. This year was dominated by ...

The commercial success of Latin music has become a double-edged sword. On one side are industry boosters chattering about constant growth and revenue exceeding $1 billion; on the other, critics ...

In the trunk were the original songbooks for her highly acclaimed debut album, “My 21st Century Blues.” The thief also left with Raye’s only copy of the initial ideas and notes for three or ...

On the heels of her latest groundbreaking album and ahead of the highly anticipated ceremony, one question looms: Will the Grammys finally bestow album of the year upon the megastar? The answer ...

Here are my Top 10 jazz/improv albums of 2024. Each of them made my life a little better this year, and I’m hoping they might do the same for you. “Compassion,” by Vijay Iyer (ECM ...

She declared, this “ain’t a Country album” but “a ‘Beyoncé’ album” — positioning herself in opposition to the genre’s rigid power structures. And yet, she made the year’s best ...

A springtime gauntlet of weekly album drops by the industry's biggest stars was regularly interrupted by wildly inventive newcomers arriving out of nowhere, underground favorites reaching new ...