2010's Most-Deserving Grammy Nominees

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards just announced their nominees. As usual, most of them are god-awful to mediocre artists who happen to sell a ton of records, which apparently is part of the Grammys' criteria for judging what's good and what's not...  read more

The 30 Best Cover Songs of the Decade (2000-2009)

We hope you've enjoyed our month-long Best of the Decade series as much as we've enjoyed putting it together...  read more

The 50 Best Albums of the Decade (2000-2009)

We had dozens of critics vote for the best new albums, and then we argued some more until we'd focused our spotlight onto the very best music created during the aughts.  read more

Swell Season at Bonnaroo

When Swell Season played "Falling slowly," and Glen Hansard asked the crowd to sing along “because we’re really quiet,” and thousands of people took him up on the offer, I remembered why I love music festivals. When Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a pair of actors who became one of recent cinema’s most intriguing fictional couples, then became one of music’s most intriguing actual couples sang Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” into the same mic, looking at each other lovingly, I remembered why I love music festivals. When Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood told a six-minute maybe-true, maybe-not six-minute story about his...  read more