In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate critic Carl Wilson emails about the year in music with fellow critics — featuring New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, freelance writer Briana Younger, NPR ...

The sound of pop music shifted quickly and unpredictably this year: In 2021, ’90s club music made a euphoric return, an Afrobeats song cracked the Billboard Top 10, and hyperpop consolidated while a ...

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Paul Vincent Perez has dreamed of opening a place like Westside Blues and Jazz for quite some time. "This club's been on my bucket list for 25 years," Perez says of the speak-easy-inspired lounge on ...

Is there a more tired playlist than your family’s annual holiday music sampler? For many of us, traveling home for the holidays ensures that we’ll not only endure some passive-aggressive familial ...

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In a year of continued uncertainty, musicians held their colleagues, and listeners, close. By Giovanni Russonello Esperanza Spalding, Pharoah Sanders and Jason Moran made some of the year’s strongest ...

"Only here to sin." That admission from NPR Music's song of the year lies at the heart of many of the stories told across these 100 tracks. Perhaps the crowning of Cardi and Megan's "WAP" last year ...