You can look back on the hip-hop terrain with 20/20 hindsight, tally up the votes, and declare the GOATs, but the Best Rapper Alive from year to year is a feeling in the moment. There have been debates among rap fans living in that moment since the early days of hip-hop, but thos...
He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996. His song, "Crazy Arms" stayed #1 for 20 weeks in 1956. #26. Don Williams Nicknamed "The Gentle Giant," Williams served in the Army for two years before becoming a musician. He had scored 17 #1 singles on the Billboard ...
Rebecca Hall is one of the best actors working today, someone who always delivers — and frequently delivers intense, electrically-charged performances. Hall seems to specialize in playing women who are slowly coming unglued; women who are tormented, or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. That ...
One year before he recorded his signature song, "Still," Bill Anderson enjoyed his first No. 1 hit with 1962's "Mama Sang a Song." Written about a young boy looking back on his childhood, this tune honors Mom for keeping the family together in song and good spirit during tough times....
There's a lot to be happy about if you're a rock fan in 2021. Concerts are coming back, but more importantly we're getting a wealth of new music bands can play when they hit those stages. In this feature, we're keeping a running tally of the Best Rock Songs that 2021 has to of...
“Lose It” is equal parts windows-down jam and flirty love letter, with verses that show off Brown’s impressive range. And while it wasn’t his first chart topper, “Lose It” ended Florida Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha’s record-setting 50-week run atop the Hot Country Songs tally, ...
A quintessential 1975 song, “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)” packs all of frontman Matthew Healy’s contradictory lyrical tics into a shimmering melodic powerhouse, suggesting a rewrite of a Hall & Oates song for the FaceTime generation. “I see you online…all the time,” Healy moan...
Run the tally, and we might have to all agreeViolatoris the band’s greatest release. “Enjoy The Silence” comes from that 1990 collection of genius, and it’s truly the epitome of Depeche Mode’s greatness. Gahan’s performance is strong but tender, the melodies ache and sing with joy...
from the judgment-from-above crash of opener “Money Money” to the eerily outstanding “Spying Glass,” which Andy would later revisit in collaboration with Massive Attack. One of the last great dub records before the sound went digital,Dance Hall Stylefeels as grimy and haunted as the era...
With Oscars, Golden Globes, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction and four Grammys, Trent Reznor’s trophy case is very impressive. The Nine Inch Nails mastermind took home Best Metal Performance Grammys in 1992 and 1995 for “Wish” and “Happiness in Slavery,” respectively. His other Gram...