Every year, I compile a long list of my favorite music. For 2017, that list was 41 albums in length, plus an additional 20 songs. I typically divide the albums into five categories: one category for ...

The best songs we heard this year reflected a deep sense of collective need. For safety, for respect, for self-definition. For money or sex or revolution. Maybe we just hear what we crave, but on huge ...

In a year full of disasters, both natural and man-made, music seemed to be the one place where unpredictability was actually a good thing. From the flute rap to post-modern rock poetry, artists took ...

Tuning into the media often felt nightmarish this year, whether you got your news from the morning paper or the sleepless churn of Facebook and Twitter: a president with the temper and attention span ...

The British shoegaze icons return from a two-decade hiatus, and it's as if they never missed a step. The sounds of a band reunited, reinvented and falling effortlessly back into its old tricks. 9.

Do you hear that? Ah, yes. That’s the sound of 2017 gasping for its final breath as we laugh (scream?) manically into the void and oh my god is it over yet? In a year that decimated the line between ...

Kelly Lee Owens’ self-titled debut has shown up on tons of year-end lists. But what are her 2017 favorites? He had to cancel his appearance at this weekend’s this weekend’s Day For Night festival, and ...

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Year in review: best rock songs of 2017 When we look back at music in 2017, rock stands out as a genre that saw a tremendous amount of ...

Released in 2017, "Reputation" was Swift's sixth studio album and is yet to be rereleased. But is that about to change?

NPR Music's list of the 100 best songs of 2017. Margo Price's debut was full of fierily raucous drinking songs, but this year's All American Made digs far deeper, delving into America's dark ...

NPR Music's list of the 100 best songs of 2017. There's a tension in the sound of Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles — classical versus pop, baroque versus modern — with Rachel's mysterious violin set ...