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If you knew who Sam Smith was way back in January, then congratulations! You were ahead of the curve. If you know who Sam Smith…

With the Salad Days of 2014 long gone, we're looking back on the music that defined the past 12 months. We've already counted down the…

In a year devoid of much Top 40 excitement, big-name pop stars threw their hats into the ring — Taylor Swift, Robyn, and Jason Derulo…

It's been as wide-open a race for our favorite songs of the year as any 12-month period we can remember; without one specific artist or…

Here's what happens when Tomorrow's Harvest becomes yesterday's news. To complement our Top 50 Songs of 2013, it's time to count down the year's best…

Kanye West's Yeezus is the most important album of all time inspired by a lamp.Struck by one of Le Corbusier's sleek, minimal fixtures, West responded…

For Taylor Swift, the past 12 months have been the moment when the always crossover-hungry country singer finally and unabashedly embraced pop. She also issued…

It doesnt take a Rap Genius to know that 2012 was a great year for analyzing hip-hop. Here's our favorite individual lyrics from a year…

They made disappinting, often horrific art. They issued tone-deaf statements. They tattooed images of their battered ex-girlfriends on their necks. A look back at the…

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has entertained us plenty over the years, crafting neo-psych narratives in the form of classic albums (see The Soft Bulletin…

Now that the second decade of the Golden Age of television is solidly underway, everything's different, right? It's like ever since Tony Soprano started seeing…

Slurring supervillains, drunken sailors, singing gamines, not-so-gentle Southern men: these were the characters who, after all had been said and screened, left the biggest impact…

Here, in one place, is all the free jazz, cassette noise, doomy dronescapes, 21st Century recomposition and bloodthirsty skronk-punk that we listened to when we…

James Brown's life was as deep and mythic as his celebrated groove. In the magisterial, rollicking biography The One: The Life and Music of James…

Style's been trending webward for a decade now, but 2012 was the year the memes really hit the streets. Tumblr reblogs and Pinterest boards actually…