These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten. Musically, they’re all over the map ...

Swanton grew up near the Bull Run Restaurant and he developed a taste for blues when his father took him to shows. Matt Swanton grew up in Shirley "down the road" from the Bull Run Restaurant, which ...

Lorde, Annahstasia, Rosalia, Brandon Lake, Hayley Williams, Clipse, Pulp, London Suede, Samia all released great albums in ...

Love & Ponystep is a love letter to those spaces from Zelda Trixie Lulamoon, a Portland producer with the astonishing ability to crank out consistently interesting hour-and-a-half-plus albums on a ...

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone reading this has their holiday preparation in line and is gearing up for a lovely, ...

In an exclusive conversation, Siddhanth Bhatia and Raja Kumari spoke about their experience of working on the album Sounds of ...

“ No album has ever meant more in my life ,” Dan Mangan says of 2025’s Natural Light. This unexpected creative outpouring “ ...

Making a list of good things that happened in 2025 may feel like a very short exercise…however despite the world being on ...

It’s been a year for Americana in the city. Hopkins’s big voice soars over a vintage alt-country sound. FFO Sharon Van Etten / First Aid Kit / PJ Harvey / The Last Dinner Party / Big Thief. A noisy ...

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Even as the amount of music made by both humans and AI exceeds what any listener could possibly consume, a few local artists ...