Musically speaking, in 2024 mainstream culture is stuck in a nostalgia trap and has been for several years. Fueled by Spotify ...

albums, including Kaitlin Butts’ Oklahoma!-inspired concept LP, Shaboozey’s Western hip-hop, and Zach Top’s Nineties gold. Country’s hot. And it shows no signs of cooling its cowboy-boot ...

Brenda Lee reaches another landmark as the legend notches her first chart-topper on Billboard's Top Country Albums survey ...

In 2024, the most memorable country albums were the projects that fell on one end or the other of a stylistic extreme. Some of the biggest splashes came from young-gun traditionalists, who ...

Hayes Carll is one of modern country music’s finest songwriters. The Band of Heathens is an Americana-leaning rock band who ...

This year’s best country albums list is once again presented in partnership with Don’t Rock The Inbox, the amazing country music newsletter run by Stereogum contributors Marissa R. Moss and ...

The book, “Apple Music: 100 Best Albums,” was created in partnership ... and underrepresentation of genres like rock, hip-hop ...

After the last few years of the pandemic and all the political upheaval worldwide, the massive right and left divisions in this country and in others ... lands at #12 on Under the Radar’s Top 100 ...