Our definitive list returns! Featuring chart-topping albums, some returning veterans, and a few surprise upstarts. Join us as we count down the best albums of the year.

Check out some of the amazing photography we’ve featured this year! Impressive, to say the least.

Hip-hop artist Asher Roth has announced that his sophomore album will drop on Def Jam Recordings in March of 2012. The album will be Roth’s [...]

Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.

Public Enemy has announced that they will be releasing a huge box set that includes three CDs featuring their post-Def Jam catalogue. Since leaving Def [...]

The world may not recognize it now, but I think it’s only a matter of time before Chuck D is recognized as hip-hop’s official chairperson. [...]

The 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival is now in the bag, and now that the last notes of Ween’s epic closing set have floated back into the ether, I am here to fill you in. The weekend, which took place at The Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Washington, in was chock full of good, bad, and some truly ugly moments.

Presenting the new and improved Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5! Fourteen delicious tracks (and one bonus track) fortified with vitamins, minerals, essential polypeptides, and 100% [...]