Throughout this truly unprecedented year, songs have been with us. They were with us through the pandemic, when a rapper riffing on being “bored in the house” or a pop star creating an entire album ...

7. The Microphones, "Microphones In 2020" 8. Bad Moves, "Local Radio" 9. Ashley McBryde, "Hang In There, Girl" ...

While we struggled to finish a 1,000-piece puzzle in lockdown, major stars including Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, BTS and Bad Bunny released multiple albums, singles and even films this year. In spite ...

The best rock songs of 2020 brought joy to a year that really needed it. It's pretty hard to imagine how the year could have gone worse for the the music industry as a whole, as the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Metal is just about the only thing that got us through the otherwise dreadful year of 2020. It's a year we'd all like to forget and leave behind, but there are still some positive takeaways — at least ...

“Take My Name” is on Parmalee’s 2021 For You album. Written by lead singer Matt Thomas, along with Ashley Gorley, Ben Johnson ...

Here are 21 of the songs we’ll take with us from this year into 2021 — where hopefully we can dance together again. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and YouTube This was the sort of year that ...

Until this year if Mickey Guyton’s struggles had been turned into a country music song, its title could have been “Almost Famous.” Guyton was the Black country music singer who almost broke through ...

Tracks responding to real-time events and a spectrum of moods captured the hodgepodge feelings of life in lockdown. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles No short list can sum ...

In a year saddled with the stressors of several, songs are one of the few means of escape on which we’ve remained able to rely. Whether it’s the distinct high point of an all-around outstanding album, ...

The best songs of 2020 were created in studios from Seoul to Johannesburg, Puerto Rico to Nashville. They strut, commiserate, titillate and disarm. Some of them are collaborations that showcase ...

Looking back years from now, we may or may not remember how we encountered the songs that defined 2020 — on the radio, on a streaming service, on TikTok as the soundtrack of somebody’s viral dance ...