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’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring… except for you, bobbing your head to “Sleigh Ride” and “Jingle Bell Rock,” with their soothing sleigh bells echoing throughout the frosty night. Whether you’re a fan of atmospheric tracks like “White Christmas” or modern pop hits like Justin Bieber’s...

Waxwork Records has an epic Rob Zombie Firefly Trilogy soundtrack box set up for order right now, so go get it.

NONFICTION: A vivid and varied collection of short essays and poems by notable Black writers. "Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic," edited by Valerie

Yale faculty members Daphne Brooks and Braxton Shelley recently won top prizes from professional musical societies for their groundbreaking music scholarship.

1975 was the year of Margaret Thatcher’s debut as leader of the Conservative Party, the end of the Vietnam War and an inflationary peak — a period of rapid change.  That same year is the namesake of today’s top British pop rock band, “The 1975.” The group takes on the inevitability of life adjustment and...

On Oct. 21, millions of people across the world hit play on the latest Taylor Swift album as the clock struck midnight. But I was on a different mission that evening. As some of my best friends listened to the first notes of Swift’s “Lavender Haze,” I was beginning my most anticipated listen of the...

Available in two variations — “Samara & The Well” green & black marbled vinyl and “Cursed VHS Tape” black with white splatter colored vinyl.

Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys’ frontman, must have learned a lot from fellow Brit and short-lived prime minister Liz Truss. Both seem to have egregiously miscalculated what people need to survive high inflation and economic pains. You may have heard of “recession pop”: the TikTok-fueled theory that to subvert the current darkness of economic ruin, pop...

Taylor Swift has finally released the perfect album for sad insomniacs. “Midnights,” Swift’s 10th studio album, released Friday at midnight EST. The album marked an interruption of her ongoing journey to re-record her first six albums and reclaim her masters catalog. Swift last released “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in November 2021, the second of her re-recordings....

The best contemporary music books on this list are specific and sweeping, creating new narratives that challenge dominant orthodoxy on music and its histories.