In December 2024, Gene Simmons opined, quite matter-of-factly, that rock was dead. The artists comprising our Top 30 Rock Songs of 2024 would like a word. As the year draws to a close, UCR looks back ...

What was 2024's Best Rock Album - Smashing Pumpkins' Aghori Mhori Mei or Tim Montana's Savage? Eventually the final bell has to ring and for Loudwire Nights' Chuck's Fight Club, this is our last ...

Five years after reuniting on stage, the Black Crowes took their reunion to the next level with 2024's excellent new studio album Happiness Bastards, their first collection of new songs in 15 years.

2024 was a historic year for music, with Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tying Lil Nas X’s record for longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” put the recording ...

With 2024 firmly in the rearview, we’re finishing up our recap with a couple of genre lists. Last week, we ranked the best rap albums of the year. Today, we’ve assembled a comprehensive list of our ...

The nominees have been revealed for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards and it's looking like a big year for country-rock crossover star Zach Bryan, who leads the pack with 21 nominations in 18 categories ...

Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection — it was a great year for all manner of indie-rock. Legends ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...