Whatever you choose from this list, you can be sure that it’ll be incredible. These are NME’s 50 best albums of 2024.

Barre Phillips, the renowned improvisatory jazz bassist who recorded for ECM Records has died in New Mexico at the age of 90.

Dominic Miller, the celebrated guitarist known for his three-decade collaboration with Sting, is set to grace stages across ...

From Nala Sinephro to Shabaka to Fugazi offshoot The Messthetics, here are 10 jazz albums not to miss from 2024.

OUSSAMA ZAHR This year, no album was as ambitious and intelligent as “Music in Time of War,” a imagined conversation between Claude Debussy and Komitas Vardapet, witnesses to 20th-century horrors.

Fergus McCreadie and friends are driving Scottish jazz to ever greater heights, writes Jim GilchristFergus McCreadie: Stream ...

The Line of Best Fit Never heard of Johnny Blue Skies? You may recognize him by his given name: Sturgill Simpson. The now Paris, France-based country music star adopted a new alter ego for his first ...

artists striking out on their own solo and whatever has fallen in-between since January. Without further ado, here are the 40 best debut albums of 2024. —Matt Mitchell, Music Editor ...

Previously best known for his precocious songwriting abilities, Leon Thomas took leaps and bounds as an artist when he sculpted his new album Mutt, signaling his growth along those lines.

Like the number 1 album on this list, “GNX” represents a perfect marriage of things the artist in question does well. On “GNX,” we find Lamar still at his best, spitting bars that are as ...

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From Charli XCX’s global domination with Brat to Kendrick Lamar’s rap game-changing GNX, these are the best albums of 2024 according to our academic experts. GNX, Lamar’s sixth studio album ...