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Jacob Bannon, Nate Newton, Kurt Ballou, and Ben Koller all share their favorite albums of the year with us.

It's year-end list season already, and one of the first major publications out of the gate is metal mag Decibel.

Wolves in the Throne Room, Julie Christmas, Show Me The Body, KEN mode, David Eugene Edwards (Wovenhand), and more are also on the initial lineup...

This week's stacked Notable Releases include reggae trailblazer Protoje, alt-country great Nikki Lane's Josh Homme-produced LP, The Wonder Years' stunning new album, jazz innovator Makaya McCraven, and more...

Listen to new songs from Dream Unending, Sumerlands, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Acephalix, Psychonaut (ft. Brutus & Amenra vocalists), Jivebomb, Petbrick (ft. J Bannon), Razor, Lamb of God, and more...

Listen to new songs by Phosphorescent (Fleetwood Mac cover), The Comet Is Coming, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Pete Astor, WILLOW, Saucy Santana, Norah Jones (Leonard Cohen cover), and more...

From Arctic Monkeys to Björk to The 1975 to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Alvvays to City of Caterpillar to Dry Cleaning to The Mars Volta to Mindforce to Pinkshift to Slipknot to Taylor Swift, here are 87 albums we can't wait to hear before 2022 ends...

As Denton, Texas noise rock festival No Coast approaches, founder Jeff Helland and noise rock's band of the moment Chat Pile go back and forth in a new BV interview...

Listen to new songs from Botch, City of Caterpillar, The Otolith (ex-SubRosa), Black Math Horseman, Foreign Hands, Mindforce, Dead Cross, Innumerable Forms, and more...

Listen to DJ Khaled's 8-minute posse cut with Jay-Z & others, plus new songs by Nikki Lane, OFF!, Britney Spears + Elton John, Ben Gibbard + Noah Cyrus, Lakeyah, Lil Tjay, Mickey Guyton, FIDLAR, Bartees Strange (Freddie Gibbs cover), Miya Folick, and more...