2015: The Year That #Squad Died

Lindsay Zoladz

Dec 18, 2015 1:00 PM

The Year’s Best Music on TV, in Movies, and Onstage

Carl Wilson

Dec 18, 2015 10:28 AM

In 2015, Black Artists Took Back the Pop Charts

Chris Molanphy

Dec 17, 2015 3:10 PM

Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly Captured This Year Better Than Any Other Album

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Dec 17, 2015 9:30 AM

In Music, 2015 Was the Year of Anti-Everything

Lindsay Zoladz

Dec 16, 2015 7:30 AM

Slate’s Music Critic Picks the Best Albums and Songs—and Voices—of 2015

Carl Wilson

Dec 16, 2015 5:15 AM

Why Run the Jewels 2 Is the Rap Album of the Year

Ann Powers

Dec 20, 2014 9:16 AM

Bragging About Liking Every Genre of Music Has Become Its Own Kind of Snobbery

Lindsay Zoladz

Dec 19, 2014 6:54 PM

Who Was the Most Important Rapper of 2014? J. Cole? Young Thug? Iggy Azalea?!

Jon Caramanica

Dec 19, 2014 3:35 PM

The Best Podcasts About Music (Plus: The Year’s Best Protest Songs)

Carl Wilson

Dec 19, 2014 1:23 PM

Why I Can’t Hate Iggy Azalea—Even if She Doesn’t Deserve All Her Success 

Craig Jenkins

Dec 19, 2014 10:29 AM

It’s Only Been a Week and I Already Want to Overhaul My Top 10 Albums List

Ann Powers

Dec 18, 2014 3:51 PM

A Salute to the Bad Feminists of Pop

Lindsay Zoladz

Dec 18, 2014 2:59 PM

This Year in Music Left Many Lessons for Middle-Aged White Dudes

Carl Wilson

Dec 18, 2014 11:24 AM

Only Critics Love the Band Named Wussy. The Critics Are Right.

Ann Powers

Dec 18, 2014 10:05 AM

In Pop, We Can Transcend Our Bodies. In the Real World, We’re Still Stuck in Them.

Jason King

Dec 17, 2014 5:36 PM

Cyborg Pop Stars: They’re Just Like Us!

Lindsay Zoladz

Dec 17, 2014 11:36 AM

D’Angelo’s Long-Awaited Black Messiah Will Live or Die by Its Ambition

Carl Wilson

Dec 17, 2014 8:57 AM

Female Artists Have Stolen the Spotlight, but Pop Needs More Women Behind the Scenes

Ann Powers

Dec 16, 2014 1:01 PM

I Found Pop Utopia—At a Bruno Mars Concert

Ann Powers

Dec 20, 2013 6:33 PM