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Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications. Whereas competitors are in a hurry to get their list up before anyone else, in late ...

This is awfully late to publish a year-end list of any kind, and while I don’t have excuses, there are explanations. As with all of these lists, ultimately, it comes down to vibes. A lot of the albums ...

Farewell, 2024! It's been another massive 12 months in the heavy music world with new releases from everyone from Judas Priest and Opeth to Nightwish, Bring Me The Horizon and Poppy, but we're finally ...

One evening this past July, I found myself partaking in one of the most glamorous indulgences known to humankind: crying on the street in New York. I was inconsolably weeping, trudging towards home, ...

The erstwhile Year of the Woman keeps looking like it’s turning out to be the Century of the Woman, as popular music goes … and there’ll be no complaints about that when we have a surfeit of superstar ...

As the best track of 2024, “ROCKMAN” is everything. Spiritually, it’s the grandson of the ’80s soft rock ballad. Sonically, it’s somewhere between sultry new wave and marimba-heavy reggae-funk. Within ...

Rack is The Jesus Lizard’s first studio album since 1998. These hugely influential noise rockers ended that 26-year streak of nothing with a killer comeback, to say the least. Rack shows The Jesus ...

With 2024 firmly in the rearview, we’re finishing up our recap with a couple of genre lists. Last week, we ranked the best rap albums of the year. Today, we’ve assembled a comprehensive list of our ...

Kind of a tough sell: lo-fi power pop sung by an Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks soundalike. But the melodies and arrangements here are undeniable. Following Troper’s fantastic 2022 album, “MTV,” this is yet ...

Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications. Whereas competitors are in a hurry to get their list up before anyone else, in late ...