Revisit 15 classic songs from 1976 that still sound fresh, powerful, and worth playing loud 50 years later. You will not be ...

"Thriller," "Billie Jean," "Man in the Mirror" ... there will be no agreeing on Michael Jackson's top song, but here's our ...

The year before punk broke, rock's old guard made a strong, pressing stand. But as the UCR staff-selected list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1976 shows, the music that dominated headlines at the end of ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

If you’ve ever heard the original recording of “Tennessee Whiskey” by David Allan Coe, you’d wonder how Chris Stapleton ever landed on his version. While Coe’s original is stellar in its own right, it ...

Lyrics and vocals are, of course, an integral part of music. As a matter of fact, some artists have made it big by being a mediocre musician and a masterful lyricist. On the other hand, some artists ...

Remember the ’90s? If you do, here’s some news that might make you feel old: We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed ...

When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface, there’s ...

Here are the 10 best instrumental metal albums since 2010, ranked by Intervals' Aaron Marshall. So, when he has some recommendations about the modern era of instrumental metal (instru-metal?), you're ...