Welcome to a whopper of a mixtape. If you've been living under the rock 2020 dropped on all of us back in March and spent the last nine months finding comfort in the sounds of your childhood (hell, ...

It’s the end of the year and tech platforms are beginning to roll out their annual recap lists. For some music streaming services, this means revealing what the top artists, albums, and songs were for ...

We’ve been asking artists and other industry figures for their Top 10 albums of the 2020, and here we have year-end lists from a bunch of staff members of much-missed NYC record store Other Music, ...

7. The Microphones, "Microphones In 2020" 8. Bad Moves, "Local Radio" 9. Ashley McBryde, "Hang In There, Girl" ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings. By Anthony Tommasini Zachary Woolfe Joshua ...

It is hard to imagine electronic music experiencing a stranger and more unsettling year than this one; only something like the collapse of the internet, or the electrical grid itself, might inflict ...

Earlier this December, biannual music influencer Barack Obama “revealed” what we knew all along: His end of year and songs of summer playlists are made with more than a little help from daughters ...

Let’s face it: listening to new music wasn’t exactly easy this year. Amidst the neverending whirlwind of 2020, it was tempting to crawl into a cocoon of nostalgic favorites and never come out. But the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. After a major year where they hit new sales highs, cracked the ...