Year in Music 2013

To finish out the year, we'll be offering the top 25 albums from various SPIN staffers. Today, as a matter of introduction, SPIN's new Associate…

To finish out the year, we'll be offering the top 25 albums from various SPIN staffers. Today, Editor-at-Large Charles Aaron (transmitting live from Durham, N.C.).

To finish out the year, we'll be offering the top 25 albums from various SPIN staffers. Today, Deputy Editor Rob Harvilla.

To finish out the year, we'll be offering the top 25 albums from various SPIN staffers. Today, Editor in Chief Jem Aswad.

A debauched staycation with a hip-hop bawse. A former Nine Inch Nails guitarist's downward spiral. The surprising community keeping the cassette tape alive. These are…

Music videos never really went away — they just became things that people have to seek out, instead of programming that's beamed into our living…

To finish out the year, we'll be offering the top 25 albums from various SPIN staffers. Today, Senior Editor David Bevan.

Work it? Thanks, Britney, we've got that covered. From beach bars to bank heads (whatever they are), our favorite club tracks of the year had…

Some smart-ass once said that a picture is worth a thousand words. To that we usually say, "apples and pineapples, man." But in 2013, SPIN…

To finish out the year, we'll be offering the top 25 albums from various SPIN staffers. Today, Managing Editor Nicole Sia.

Was 2013 the year Santa went #seapunk? Only one way to find out: dive deep into SPIN's handpicked batch of 2013 holiday songs, running the…

To finish out the year, we'll be offering the top 25 albums from various SPIN staffers. Today, Writer Kyle McGovern.

We here at SPIN know from music books — many of us spend a more-than-healthy number of waking hours studying neither stock tips nor the…

Charli XCX is in a hell of a hurry. The British pop singer's first proper full-length, True Romance, came out in April, and before she'd…

Pretty great year! More jackasses than old farts here, it's true, but the all-female Top 5 makes up for it, if that's something you're into.