Best of 2015

Please: Do everything you possibly can in one lifetime. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 23, 2015 Twitter released their ‘2015 YEAR ON TWITTER‘ today. No r…

AV Club have published their list of The 15 Best Albums of 2015. Besides two forward-thinking California rappers (guess which ones?) and Grimes, this list leans the most heavily on guitar rock of all the ones we’ve seen this year, whether it’s the hushed sounds of Sufjan Stevens and Julien Baker or the harder-edged Sleater-Kinney and Courtney Barn…

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 …

If you’re sick of seeing the same names atop every publication’s year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different…

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…

Rolling Stone has published their list of the Top 50 Albums of 2015. As always, it has older artists who don’t seem to pop up on many other lists (Madonna, Darlene Love, Mark Knopfler, Boz Scaggs, Keith Richards, James Taylor, Don Henley) (did you even know Don Henley released an album this y…

Gorilla vs Bear has published his Top 50 Albums of 2015 list, writing, “We feel pretty confident proclaiming 2015 the best year for new music this decade, and we’d even go so far as to say it’s been arguably our favorite year in the history of this s…

Happy December! SPIN are celebrating the first day of the last month of the year by putting out their Top 50 Albums of 2015 list. It’s a diverse list, with the top 10 ranging from DIY-indie (Alex G) to mainstream country (Kacey Musgraves) to leftfield major label rap (Vince Staples and Kendrick …

The new issue of UK music mag Uncut is out now, and it includes their Top 75 Albums of 2015 list. Like fellow UK mags MOJO and Q, they’ve got a lot of love for Julia Hol…