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Great albums were ... that feel like “Songs of a Lost World.” The result is nothing short of the single most satisfying and all-encompassing musical ride of 2024. Kendrick Lamar performs ...

With “30 for 30,” SZA adds her seventh No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart and breaks a tie with Rihanna for the most leaders by a woman on the chart since it launched in October 2012. Here’s a review of ...

There really is no best, and perhaps no worst, of a year. Only what moved you. These 10 records made my 2024, Aarik Danielsen writes.

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He topped the Billboard charts with tracks like “Like That” with St. Louis native Metro Boomin and Future and “Not Like Us,” a diss track toward Drake that’s earned Lamar five Grammy nominations ...

In the summer of 2022, I picked up a copy of Rafael Toral’s Aeriola Frequency from a Lisbon record store at the suggestion of a Portuguese friend. Released in 1998, the album was made from a ...

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