Over the past few years, year-end critics’ lists have multiplied faster than the worry lines on Ben Bernanke’s brow. Mark our words, the Internet and your local Barnes & Noble’s magazine rack will be ...

Daughtry, Fergie and Akon are among the 2007 chart leaders in the 387 tallies that comprise Billboard's Year in Music & Touring issue, which is on newsstands today (Dec. 14) and online at… By ...

The Hype Machine is a great music blog aggregator that we’ve somehow failed to write about until now. The site continuously collects material, including reviews and songs, from the best music blogs on ...

December 20, 2007 • Tens of thousands of listeners voted in the All Songs Considered poll for the year's best CDs.

Time spent listening to online music radio was up 26% last year, with the segment logging 4.85 billion listening hours in 2007, according to a research report out from AccuStream iMedia Research. By ...

Grand Ole Opry star ("Girl on the Billboard.") Jan. 1. Pete Kleinow, 72 Ace steel guitar player with the Flying Burrito Brothers. Jan. 6. Michael Brecker, 57 Versatile tenor saxophonist; won 11 ...

metacritc has published a list of expected musical releases for 2007. The list includes definite releases through May and then anticipated 2007 releases after that. The list looks great to me. Save ...

Mad, as in mad funky. Mad, as in mad rockin’. Mad, as in…well, sometimes just pissed off. Mixing equal parts hard rock riffs, Latin rhythms and hip-hop-speckled vocals, the Mad Mexicans provide as ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last year at about this time, Joseph Pope III and his friends were huddled around a radio in their Baker neighborhood practice space listening attentively to ...

2007 was a banner year for video gaming, and the industry has the figures to prove it. The Entertainment Software Association announced today that total sales for 2007 were $18.85 billion, with $9.5 ...

The holidays are a time of family, schmaltzy Christmas commercials that somehow make you cry and, for music journalists, list-making. Lots and lots of list-making. If you want to parse the exact ...