Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 months, and then we all argue over placements and omissions. “Where’s __?” is an ...

Here’s a useless piece of trivia: Out of the 11 canonical Star Wars movies, eight feature the Death Star in one way or another. There’s the original planet-exploding weapon in A New Hope and the ...

Clockwise from bottom left - Alien: Earth (Photo: Patrick Brown/FX), Adolescence (Photo: Netflix), The Bear (Photo: FX), The Last Of Us (Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO) One of the tough things about ...

If 1994 was among the greatest years in rock and roll history, then 1995 should undoubtedly take the mantle for rap music. The decade welcomed the emergence and canonizations of alt-metal, ambient, ...

Over the years, dozens of posthumous rap albums have been released, most forgettable, some exceptional. Here’s our ranking of the very best.

With dance music representing a culture that especially thrives on experimentation and evolution, producers are the force that keeps everything moving. So without further ado, after saluting our top ...

See The FADER's top 50 songs of 2024. Every album on our year-end list has a fearlessness about it. Over and over this year, while the world raged outside, our favorite musicians ventured into new ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2024. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...

Thirty years ago, Nirvana’s final act began with the September 1993 release of In Utero. Recorded with Steve Albini—the engineer behind Pixies’ Surfer Rosa—In Utero sounded as vital and twitchy as an ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout ...

The hits that defined the year, and our favorites found in between. It was a refrain heard throughout the Billboard offices in the first half of 2022: Where are the hits? The slow start for new ...

2022 was the year of the comeback. As the music industry stumbled out of its pandemic fog, many artists finally delivered long delayed, highly anticipated, and sonically experimental albums that met ...