From Jersey club to the U.K. underground, 2021's best electronic music looks like a complex melting pot of genre and history.

Rolling Stone staffers share their favorite albums released in 2021, from the biggest releases of the year to the most eclectic faves ...

2021 has been a difficult year. That’s true. But there are reasons to be cheerful as we look toward 2022. One main reason is of all years, 2021 was a banner year for music. I don’t mean ...

The diners present at Mh Zh those nights might not have paid attention to any of the music the two Sams conjured with only saxophone and electric bass, but there was a ripple effect to such smooth ...

Shawn Mendes delivered a beautiful performance of his latest single "Summer of Love" with Puerto Rican producer Tainy at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday ...

Billboard Music Awards 2021: Everything You Need to Know About the Star-Studded Event The 2021 Billboard Music Awards will air live on Sunday, May 23 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on NBC ...

In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate critic Carl Wilson emails about the year in music with fellow critics — featuring New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, freelance writer Briana Younger ...

This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as ...

Dear music-scribe mayors who are not the mayor, I wish we could go another dozen rounds to dig into all the fascinating stuff that’s come up this week. I’m sure in many ways we will, in many ...

It's taken a while, but Dolby Atmos has cemented itself as the premier surround sound format -- and 2021 was the year it became nearly ubiquitous.

Promises eases into our realm with a seven-note motif played on harpsichord by British electronic music producer and composer Floating Points (né Sam Shepherd). It’s a comforting refrain that ...

NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021 December 1, 2021 • NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something ...