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The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz+Jop issue has just been published. Polling nearly 500 music critics, you may not be too surprised, at this point, to learn that Kendrick Lamar‘s To Pimp a Butterfly topped their 2015 albums list…

Festival creator Adam Zacks and Live Nation have announced the lineup for the Sasquatch! Music Festival, taking place May 27th – 30th, with over 120 artists including performances by The Cure, Florence & The Machine, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, Sufjan Stevens, M83, Grimes, Chet Faker, and Jamie xx…

The Governors Ball Music Festival, which happens June 3-5 at Randall’s Island Park in NYC, has announced it’s 2016 lineup which includes headliners Kanye West, the Strokes, and The Killers, plus Beck, Robyn, Death Cab for Cutie, M83, Haim, Chvrches, Father John Misty, Eagles of Death Metal, Purity Ring, Courtney Barnett, Jamie xx, Miike Snow, Bloc Party, Miguel, Big Grams, Action Bronson, Joey Bada$$, De La Soul, Vince Staples, Against Me…

Like they usually do, The Guardian rolled out their 40 Best Albums of 2015 list over a two-week period, and the whole thing is now here. The top 10 has nine US/UK list regulars and last year’s Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers (who seem to be more loved in t…

You saw their songs and their honorable mentions, and now Pitchfork‘s Top 50 Albums of 2015 list is here. Like with the song list, “records released this year and records that made their greatest impact in 2015 were eligible,” which allows for things like D’Angelo‘s late 201…

Pitchfork have published their 100 Best Tracks of 2015 list. The criteria was “any track that was released in 2015 or had its greatest impac…

Like last year, The FADER have listed their favorite tracks of the year. They picked 107, “because 100 just wasn’t enough.” It’s got two Drake songs in the top 10, and a Skepta song cracks it too (grime in general is pretty well-rep…

The 58th Annual Grammy Awards nominees have been announced. Album of the Year nominees include Alabama Shakes for Sound & Color, Kendrick Lamar for To Pimp A Butterfly, Chris Stapleton for Traveller, Taylor Swift for 1989 and The Weeknd for Beauty …

We already saw Rolling Stone‘s top 50 albums of 2015, and now they unveiled their top 50 songs too. It’s got a lot of the songs you couldn’t avoid this year even if you wanted to: “Hello,” “Hotline Bling,” “Trap Queen,” plenty of The Weeknd, one appearance by Justin Bie…

It’s the season for year-end lists, and they just keep rolling in. Now longrunning (and now free) UK weekly NME has joined the party, going with Grimes‘ Art Angels at #1 on their top 50 albums of 2015 list (she also topped Gorilla vs…