Almost everyone can agree: 2020 was unequivocally terrible. But even with a laundry list of all the no good, very bad events that happened in 2020, music was something that connected people across the ...

Brittany, I found your recap of 2020 as the year of Stevie Nicks incredibly refreshing—a real relief from the relentless drumbeat of the new that so often drives music coverage. It brought up tons of ...

Think of it as a victory lap for arguably the worst year ever. Now that every list-maker with ears has run down the albums and songs that made 2020 a little easier to endure, let’s take a minute as we ...

In a year in which there were few ways to hear music beyond the comforts of your own home, music videos served as a welcome — if not essential — way to experience our favorite songs. From big-budget ...

Since concerts were canceled for the majority of the year, music videos became even more vital than usual in 2020. Making videos was one of the only ways that artists could build worlds around their ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the music industry in 2020. With live performances cancelled and music venues forced to shut down, vast numbers of performers were thrown out of work. The livelihoods ...

When Pitchfork invited electronic composer Keith Fullerton Whitman to initiate us into the mysteries of ambient music a few years back, he asked, “What music isn’t ambient in the 21st century?” He ...

While our feet were planted firmly in the U.S. in 2020, largely barred from international travel, streaming data shows us our ears, at least, were wandering the globe. Figures from Alpha Data, the ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has released its year-end revenue report for 2020. And despite a year of enormous hardships, there’s some positive news to share. In the U.S., ...