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The Currents Top 89 of 2020 2020 is over! Tune in on December 31 as we say goodbye to this year and count down its Top 89 songs, as voted by you. Follow along and join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #Top89! We couldnt do #Top89 and other adventurous programming like this without your support. Results for The Currents Top 89 Songs of 2020 will post below as they are revealed on Thursday, Dec. 31. At 4 p.m. CT, well look back on past Top 89 winners and enjoy some of 2020s best co...

The 20 best albums of 2020 by LGBTQ+ artists It’s the unstoppable queer music talent for me. WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH 28th December 2020 2020 has been a tumultuous year for music. With a lack of live shows and those euphoric moments of yelling lyrics openly in a crowded space, it’s been a year of putting some celebrations on hold. But still, artists found strength in solitude and unveiled some incredible works of art. Whether they were lockdown saving graces or platters of pure pop escapis...

The 10 best albums of 2020: Taylor Swift, Fiona Apple, Waxahatchee, more Albums recorded in quarantine ranked as some of the best of this or any other year.   Has there ever been a better year to let an album sweep you away? If there’s one thing we had in 2020, it was time to kill, 40 minutes or an hour here or there to stop hitting shuffle and let a long-player wash over us. It’s still a singles culture, but the year of the coronavirus pandemic showed that works that take time to ...

Chad Whitehead, host of About What You’d Expect, breaks down his favorite albums of 2020. What else is there to say about 2020 that we don’t already know? 2020 has dislodged most of us from our routines, our jobs, our entertainment choices, and well, everything. This year was brutal for artists, many of whom are now on food stamps and unemployment like so many other Americans. Despite the hardships, artists and art moved forward. Here are some great artists who released solid albums in 2020...

The List: Stereoboards Best Albums of 2020 Monday, 14 December 2020 Written by Stereoboard Well, that was weird, wasnt it? 2020 will not be fondly remembered (aside from one particular bloke losing a big job) and 2021 is starting its race with some ground to make up, but as we locked down and stayed home the soundtrack was excellent at least. So much good music made its way into the world over the past 12 months, reminding us of what we have to cherish and also what we potential...

The Quietus , December 14th, 2020 11:58 These are our favourite tracks of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Ella Kemp, Fergal Kinney, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck Theres not much more I can add to what has already been said about our relationship to music in this pandemi...

Pitchfork + NME Release Their Top 50 (5 each) Albums of 2020 5. Perfume Genius, [ write up]In a year of isolation and unattainable intimacies, Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas is our poet laureate of constant longing. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, his fifth album, celebrates the endless possibility and vulnerability of the body without losing sight of the fundamental absurdity of the human ordeal. Hadreas sings about misery and disconnection, about feeling unrecognizable to himself, about sh...

Rain on me: Navigating the five stages of pandemic grief through the pop music of 2020 From Dua Lipa to Fiona Apple to Lady Gaga, how music defined my year of mourning normalcy. Social Sharing From Dua Lipa to Fiona Apple to Lady Gaga, how music defined my year of mourning normalcy Posted: Dec 10, 2020 2:00 PM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020 Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Charli XCX.(Interscope/Warner/Atlantic) Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, cult...

CREDIT: Bandcamp/Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah In 1969, folk trio Crosby, Stills & Nash recorded and released a cryptic chestnut entitled “Guinnevere.” The next year, two jazz masters tried their hands at the tune: flautist Herbie Mann emerging with a faithful instrumental cover, and trumpeter Miles Davis reinterpreting it as an intergalactic, unrecognizable epic that neared the 20-minute mark. For the live version appearing on Axiom, New Orleans bandleader Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is...

Since her first album, 2016’s Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, Margo Price has often been positioned in outlaw country, flanked by comparisons to Bobbie Gentry and Loretta Lynn. But on her third LP, That’s How Rumors Get Started, Price veers closer to classic rock and away from the honky-tonk that once echoed through the Nashville songwriter’s music. While her debut was charged with drinking tropes and her sophomore effort (2017’s  All American Made)  steeped in political consciousness,...