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.

Lou Barlow is best known as the bass player in Dinosaur Jr., but not long ago he was one of the principal singer-songwriters of his [...]

A lot has happened to Nathan Williams, front man of the lo-fi trio Wavves, in the past two years. He’s gone from being the blogosphere’s [...]

This is a download for “Post Acid” by Wavves, aka Nathan Williams. Click (control click for pc) to download!

To simply say that El-P is serious about his music would be an understatement. Upon first listen to his last album, I’ll Sleep When You’re [...]

Described by the band as “an almost live representation of the Lou Barlow + the missingmen live show,” the band’s new digital EP = Sentridoh III [...]

Lou Reed once asked, “What becomes a legend most?” No doubt the unfailingly modest Lou Barlow would blanch at being called a “legend.” And yet [...]

I’m more accustomed to hearing quality blues music coming from an album on Fat Possum Records, and Bloodsongs ain’t the blues no matter how you [...]