Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
Blonde is every bit the rich, densely layered album fans were expecting from Frank Ocean.
If Macklemore’s so-called advocacy is of questionable healthiness, then the woeful Dallas Buyers Club is downright toxic.
Here’s what we know: Awards shows have and always will be popularity contests.
The 2012 Record of the Year nominations seem to be transparently based largely on familiarity.
Until Maroon 5 won this category over Joss Stone in 2005, the previous male winner was, yes, Hootie & the Blowfish in 1996.
An important element of Channel Orange is its retaining of the uneven feel of a mixtape.
Grizzly Bear has finally emerged to bring us the first cut off Veckatimest’s long-awaited and still nameless follow-up.
“4 Tears” is a bravely simple track that feels like a little step forward for Ocean.
Similarly on-trend via the increasingly prominent underground R&B movement, the Weeknd takes the genre to even rawer places.