Bright Future opens with “Real House,” an achingly intimate reflection on Lenker’s childhood and relationship with her mother. The song’s demo-like feel — with plenty of room tone and breathing sounds ...

The metal world is as vast as ever, and 2024 was full of countless great albums from all across the metal spectrum, by bands from all over the world. We included some of our heavy faves on our list of ...

Now that it's 2025, we wanted to give a shout out to the most-streamed new rock album of 2024 on Spotify — but there's a catch. To determine which new album garnered the most streams in 2024, we ...

In a lot of ways, 2024 became the year that music changed everything. From genre-bending masterstrokes to unexpected cultural disruptors to an explosive rap war that kept everyone on their toes, this ...

Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications. Whereas competitors are in a hurry to get their list up before anyone else, in late ...

What’s really good and really bad about the never-ending availability of music in the age of online streaming is exactly the same — it’s never-ending. As of late last year, an estimated 120,000 new ...

Trends change, but I’ve never in my lifetime seen the thirst for punk music die. It shows up in surprising ways, like when Olivia Rodrigo gets arenas full of impressionable kids singing along to punk ...

2024 was a crazy year, but it was actually a really good year for Hip-Hop. Check out some of the best albums of the year, but we left space for you to tell us YOUR favorite! 2024 was an insane year ...

This year’s best music, our critic thinks, defied conventions of genre and doctrine, showing how hybrid and fluid the art has become. Chappel Roan; Tyler, the Creator; Willie Nelson. Unlike the rest ...

(NEXSTAR) — The year is quickly coming to a close and with that comes a cascade of year-end lists. While 2024 was a great year both in amount of music releases and their quality, some albums stuck ...