The Killers

The tracks that defined this bizarre year, featuring Megan Thee Stallion, the Weeknd, Christine and the Queens, Noname, Waxahatchee, and more

New releases to look forward to

Crunching the numbers on this year’s biggest summer festivals to determine the most in-demand acts and hardest workers, as well as which fests are the most (and least) unique and diverse.

The best tracks of the decade that changed everything for radio, the underground, and your iPod

Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij does a dead-on M.I.A. impersonation, imagines shooting a Super 8 film on his bicycle, and declares his appreciation for Tchaikovsky's deep cuts. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]

Between the NME, the rest of the British music press, daily newspapers, and radio certainly-- both commercial radio and public-- there may be more consensus among the traditional tastemakers in British pop than any other time in rock history. How did this happen and what does it mean for UK rock?

Pitchfork gears up for the 2006 holiday publishing break by counting down our 100 favorite songs of the year.

As Lollapalooza settles alongside the Lake Michigan shore, sharing park space with Chicago's free blues and jazz festivals, has alternative rock become merely a nostalgia-driven sound?

Look up any press Josh Homme did regarding the latest Queens of the Stone Age album, Lullabies to Paralyze, and ...