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Year in review 2016: Adam Blyweiss

Factory Floor, Punk Rock Bowling and a lack of superstar wokeness.

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Year in Review 2016: Jeff Terich

Exploded View, Baroness, These New Puritans and more.

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Year in Review 2016: Wil Lewellyn

Planes Mistaken for Stars, The Weeknd and more.

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Year in Review 2016: Patrick Pilch

Japanese Breakfast, Life Without Buildings and more.

Year in Review 2016: Jackie Im

Yves Tumor, Kanye West, Genesis P-Orridge and more.

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Pop Life: The best pop of 2016

The best moments in pop this year.

Year in review 2016 Respire

Year in Review 2016: Brian Roesler

We’re finishing up the year by giving the platform to individual writers to share some…

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Year in Review 2016: Stephen Chupaska

William Tyler, Savages and missing out on Elvis Costello…again.

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Year in Review 2016: Ben Braunstein

Nap Eyes, Radiohead, Guerilla Toss and more.

The best hip-hop albums of 2016

The Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2016

The best in beats and rhymes for the year.

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The 10 Best Metal Albums of 2016

The greatest moments in heavy catharsis this year.

Overlooked Records 2016

Twenty albums that slipped under the radar in 2016.

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Da Art of Storytellin’: A post-election mixtape diversion

A diversion from the divisiveness, with three great new mixtapes.

Election Roundtable

Treble Roundtable: A post-election soundtrack

We try to make sense of this election, or at least survive the aftermath through music.

Metallica new album is maybe good?

Shadow of the Horns: OK, let’s talk about Metallica

Yeah, they might be releasing their best album in 25 years. Sure looks that way.

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Remake/Remodel: R.E.M.’s Out of Time

Making the band’s 1991 a little less shiny and happy.

Da Art of Storytellin’: Stop scapegoating rap music

Hip-hop isn’t responsible for society’s ills, and definitely not responsible for Donald Trump.

Depeche Mode '90s in the '80s

Spring of 1993 was a portal into a bizarro 1980s

The post-punk era lived on, briefly, in the early ’90s.

Pop Life: (De)Grading the Charts

A takedown…er, rundown of the current Top 10.