At least when it comes to supergroups there is a narrower range to choose from. Although over the years there have been ...

Are you ready for this year to end? No matter how you’re approaching the dying days of 2024, there’s an album in this list to match your mood. Wrapping up warm for a bitter winter? Consider ...

By Heran Mamo On Wednesday (Dec. 18), SZA unveiled the album artwork for Lana, the long-awaited deluxe edition of her blockbuster album SOS. On the cover, the superstar metamorphosed into a ...

In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. You could already see that in how the upcoming ...

The last of the big grunge originals to continue unscathed by tragedy or burnout, Pearl Jam have enjoyed a revitalisation on their their twelfth studio album. The master stroke was getting producer ...

Here are the 20 albums I loved holding varying amounts of space for this year. The backhanded Charlie Puth shout-out? The lyric about looking like Taylor Swift? The ringing of Pavlov’s bell in ...

All the big guns were out in force: Taylor, Beyoncé and Kendrick melted the internet with new albums, while artists like Charli xcx, Sabrina Carpenter and Zach Bryan hit new levels of fame.

Mina, one of the bestselling Italian musical artists of all time, just dropped a new album — at the age of 84. She's not a household name in the United States, though audiences in this country ...

One of the first albums I downloaded to my bulky iPod Classic as a teenager was Curren$y’s Pilot Talk. The song that brought me there was the smoker’s anthem ...

barbaric third album that hits like a breezeblock to the jaw. Bucking the assumed trend that in order to grow you have to soften your edges, Knocked Loose’s heaviest outing to date is by far ...

These are the pop albums of 2024 that held the most promise and made the most sense. Composer Elori Saxl’s music resides on the fault line between nature and technology, juxtaposing manipulated ...

Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed ...