A variety of newcomers and some of your favorite veteran rockers provided a wide array of standout songs in 2014. And for their efforts, the deserving acts have been rewarded with a nomination for the ...

This list isn't meant to be definitive. Instead, it's an alphabetically ordered grab-bag of what some of The Atlantic's editors and writers listened to over and over again in 2014, from chart-topping ...

Better late than never. While most of our Best of 2014 lists were posted to our website back in December, it’s taken us awhile to get our Top 100 Songs of 2014 one done. Compiling and deciding upon ...

The best songs of 2014 find rock's biggest names successfully treading the difficult line between revisiting past glories and keeping things fresh. It's a tricky balance: if you go too far one way you ...

What a year for songs — songs about love and underwear and mixtapes and lipstick. There were more killer songs this year than anyone could absorb, more than this list can hold. (Some gems are over on ...

The first half of 2014 was a mixed but mostly stale bag of music. However, Iggy Azalea's 'Fancy' and Wiz Khalifa's 'We Dem Boyz' were surefire staples throughout the year -- just look at our initial ...

A good cover is more than just novelty. The best cover tunes discover something new in their song of choice, or can redefine the listener’s appreciation for a tune they’ve heard dozens of times before ...

A heartbreaking 2014 country song is currently trending as a wake-up call for men about love and life. In 2014, Jason Aldean released "Too Fast," a song about a man who realizes that his fast-paced ...

“Podcast theme songs” is not exactly a crowded genre, but Nick Thorburn’s Serial opener would have an impact no matter what it was scoring. The delicate plink-plink-plink as the podcast begins has ...

This 2014 songs-of-the-year compendium is not alphabetized or ranked, but rather organized as a playlist meant to be heard from start to finish. It’s a multi-genre mix of big-name pop hits and ...

2014 was another exciting year for metal, offering some amazing music from all ends of the metal spectrum. From avant-garde to thrash to extreme to doom to death metal, the songs below stood out among ...