December 5, 2016 • These are the records NPR Music couldn't stop playing this year — ones that speak to a moment and a lifetime, ones that party, ones that exist in their own worlds. December 5, 2016 ...

From Ariana Grande to Beyoncé to Zayn, we’re taking a look back at the best pop music had to offer in 2016. The “Formation” video’s surprise debut dropped a lot of jaws, for a host of different ...

Country music's stars brought their A-game in 2016 when it came to music videos. In other words, this 2016 list of country music's best music videos could've been a mile long. However, the following ...

When you consider the veritable dumpster fire that the past few years in country music have really been — perhaps Nashville was just preparing us for the horror show that was 2016 — there’s a whole ...

The 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards included many memorable performances and featured some of the industry's biggest stars. The third-annual show, hosted by Jason Derulo, was held at The Forum in ...

In a year dominated by the deaths of legends such as David Bowie, Prince, Maurice White and Leonard Cohen, a lot of good new music flew under the radar in 2016. And while larger-than-life personas ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This has been a queer year for headphones. Two groundbreaking pairs of cans were introduced by an unlikely ...

So many historical figures and famous artists died in 2016, we often had to be reminded that years do not kill people. Every facet of public life saw prominent losses: John Glenn, Fidel Castro, ...

As just this past week proved with the deaths of Carrie Fisher and George Michael, 2016 was a brutal year for the arts. And country music was not immune. The genre lost legendary performers, ...

There were plenty of noteworthy happenings in Memphis music in 2016, though it seemed most of it had to do with legacy — both reviving old ones and creating new ones. As usual, much of the focus of ...