One day music heads will look back at 2011 with a sense of amazement. The whole world is changing in profound ways, and popular music is no exception. Whether 2012 will bring an actual Mayan-style ...

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Was 2011 the year of the sneak attack? So many of big musical moments in the past 12 months seemed to appear out of nowhere. There was the unlikely return of the ukulele, which took a starring role in ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As a way to cap the end of another year in pop music, what follows is a ...

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Not since 2001’s At Dawn have My Morning Jacket nailed an opener harder than they did on this year’s return-to-form Circuital. Jim James scat-sings an opening fanfare, and the band carefully assemble ...

Do you hear what I hear? If you listened to the radio this holiday season, you probably did. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers released its list of most-played songs of this ...

It’s July already and the year is half-way gone. That’s why we think it’s time to reflect on the insane amount of incredible music we’ve gotten so far in 2011. You’ve already seen the long-players ...

With its crackling guitar licks and unabashedly pastoral lyrics, this standout from Real Estate’s second album exudes both an overcast melancholy and a joy in tactile pleasures: “I walked on ...