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.

Check out Dave MacIntyre’s gorgeous shots of The Horrors from their performance in Toronto.

The latest release from British band The Horrors, Skying, is a smart blend of dark ’80s New Wave and Brit-pop with gothic musings. After being [...]

If you like electronic beats with a hint of the tribal blended with smooth vocals, than the self-titled debut album from British artist SBTRKT (pronounced [...]

Funk legend Gil Scott-Heron has been outputting his brand of soul for upwards of 40 years. With his 2010 release I’m New Here, the 61-year-old [...]

New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus have announced on their website that this coming spring will see them embark on a short tour with none other than [...]

The New Jersey indie rock band Titus Andronicus’s  new album, The Monitor, was released via XL Recordings on March 9th, 2010, the 148th anniversary of [...]

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.

Holy Fuck’s band name lends itself to an easy enthusiastic review. Sort of like the film Kick-Ass, it’s a fine line that must be walked [...]

If opposites really do attract, it makes perfect sense that Holy Fuck would choose a barn in rural Ontario to record a series of dynamic electro-noise [...]

New Jersey based Titus Andronicus takes an odd blend of influences from ’90s shoegaze, to Dinosaur, Jr., to Hot Water Music, to early Alkaline Trio [...]

I’m New Here, the widely praised first album in over 15 from Gil Scott-Heron came out February 9th on XL Recordings. Now Nas has stepped into [...]

Why do we frequent coffee shops? Of course for the reward of a hot, frothy, morning treat after forking over a hefty ransom of cash. But other than that, we continue to visit our favorite java haunts to experience its traditional ambience; the dim, cool, lighting…

Holly Miranda is New York-based, lives in Brooklyn, and has been singing for as long as she can remember. She first began playing in New [...]