For music critics, your year-end list is like a combination of a masters’ thesis and an I.D. — something labored over that defines you, if only in one moment, because all of us would redo the list ...

Please please please … may we have another year-in-music in 2025 as strong as this one? In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment ...

After fifteen albums and two decades on the music scene, Aswad remains one of Britain’s best loved reggae bands. Originally led by the trio of Brinsley “Dan” Forde (on vocals and rhythm guitar), Angus ...

The ads appeared in New York’s Union Square subway station on Monday morning. Fowley helped form the Runaways in 1975. After a controversial stint at Columbia Records, during which he spent much of ...

Variety has promoted Jem Aswad to lead all music content across digital, print and live media platforms as executive editor, music. Aswad is based in Variety‘s New York office and reports to ...

"Drummie has left us to join our ancestors and leaves a huge void both personally and professionally," read a statement from the band on Friday Angus "Drummie Zeb" Gaye, the lead vocalist for the ...

In certain Decembers, a list of the year's best albums feels like a fireworks display. 2023 may have been short on flashes and booms, but it was rich with smaller fires: no less intensely gorgeous, ...

It’s hard to imagine what pop music in general — let alone the genre snootily known as “intellipop” — would sound like without Robyn’s visionary self-titled and “Body Talk” albums, which infused the ...