Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. 2024 may be remembered as the year of “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” ...

Not too far back, American Songwriter announced the category winners of the 2024 Song Contest. With genre entries ranging from Americana to Latin Music, the acclaimed panel of judges had a lot of ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The defining songs of 2024 ran the gamut in every conceivable way: from vicious diss tracks to sapphic ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Kendrick Lamar proved that he was a rapper, not like any other. Beyoncé and Shaboozey blurred the color lines in ...

We caught up with Wide Open Country’s 2024 Song Contest First and Second Place category winners to learn about the inspiration behind their songs. A Nashville-based singer-songwriter with an honest, ...

Listen to 68 tracks that made major statements, boosted big beefs, propelled up-and-comers and soundtracked the party this year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles Here’s a ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

If you were hoping for the pop madness of 2024 to slow down and start making sense: good luck, babe! Because there has never, ever, been a pop year like the hot-not-pretty mess that was 2024. Week to ...

Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no more ...

History doesn't repeat, but its guitars sure do chime. However, to call it a down year for shoegaze would require strenuous amounts of cynicism and incuriosity. Every week, I felt like I stumbled into ...