Tag: Music

Our editors share 227 of their personal favorite albums of 2024, featuring some of the year's biggest releases and a wealth of lesser-heard gems.

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Each year, the AllMusic editors look back through the albums that made the biggest impact, broke new ground, and just all-out moved us. Pop, rap, jazz, blues, classical and more. We begin with our overall best-of list, and will explore a different genre each weekday until the new year.

As autumn continues in the northern hemisphere and the temperature outside falls, the instinct it to turn to more cozy settings, which is perfect for chamber music. Two outstanding classical releases covered this month fit that bill. One is violin sonatas by the friends Brahms and Schumann, performed by Yuuko ShioKawa and András Schiff. The other features chamber works by Igor Stravinsky, conducted by Barbara Hannigan (pictured).

Each year, we share our hand-picked recommendations of books, accessories, gadgets, recordings, and more, sure to please even the most discerning audiophile.

Stephen Pearcy Discusses 40th Anniversary Reissue of Ratt's Out of the Cellar, the Musical Importance of 1984, and Why the Surviving Ratt Members Haven't Reunited Recently.

Canadian indie rock band Mother Mother have come a long way from their days in the attic in Vancouver. A series of well-received albums and the group's sudden bombshell resurgence on TikTok in 2020 has cemented them amidst a new generation of fans, one which embraces the band's alien soundscape as their own.

The highlights of October's new reviews seem to be mainly vocal releases, with a diversity of styles. Of particular note: the women of the Corvus Consort (pictured) are joined by Louise Thomson for a variety of works specifically for female voices and harp. Please explore our classical highlights for October.

There is a fine line between inspiration and imitation, and Greg Prato's new book "Led Clones: The Led Zeppelin Imitator Craze of the '80s...and Beyond" digs into this phenomenon in depth. Here's an excerpt focusing on the particular decade that gave us Star Wars, pet rocks, bell bottom jeans, afros, and punk rock – in addition to several bands motivated by Plant, Page, Jones, and Bonham.