2021 is in the rearview, and we’ve already made a list of our our favorite albums of the year, as well as separate lists focused on punk/hardcore/emo/etc, screamo, ska, jazz, rap, the Indie Basement ...

Back in June, SPIN published The 30 Best Albums of 2021 (So Far), rounding up everything from mainstream rock to experimental hip-hop. Six months later, we’re back with our year-end recap — and it’s ...

As the world moved into its second consecutive year of a pandemic, people continued to turn to music for a little bit of solace. Whether listeners needed songs about relationships, getaways, mental ...

Jazmine Sullivan, Lil Nas X and Olivia Rodrigo (Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / Los Angeles Times; Myesha Evon Gardner, Charlotte Rutherford, MTV Push) As the world slowly reopened after — well, amid — the ...

Coming into this, I knew that I wanted to celebrate the beauty and breadth of R&B this year, but I was unsure as to how to do it. The truth is writing hasn’t come easy for me since the pandemic ...

With Finally Over It, Walker lands her third No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, completing its trilogy of triumph. 2019's Over ...

From Dijon and Figmore to Mereba and Cleo Sol, the best R&B albums of the year were born out of reshaped perspectives in the face of the... For the bravest, most unique voices working in R&B, it's ...

As the world slowly reopened after — well, amid — the pandemic, musicians naturally moved beyond themselves this year to ponder ideas of identity and community. The best found deep connections between ...