A playlist of 124 songs from our three critics’ lists to experience however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz In the spirit of holiday excess and end-of-the-year summation, we’re about to make Amplifier ...

December is always a bit of a dead zone for big pop albums, unless it's 2013 and your name is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. So for this month's column... Some notes: The boundaries of "pop" grow wider and ...

Where do songs come from? For now, they come from us — from our needs, our wants, our regrets, our scorn. Next year, they might come from a box brought to near-sentience by all the songs that came ...

“Syracuse Playlist” is a monthly feature on syracuse.com highlighting music from local artists. If you’re a Syracuse-area musician, email gherbert@syracuse.com to share your music, including your ...

In a year of conspicuous, big-budget samples and career-spanning concert extravaganzas, pop music kept pulling us back to the past. But we also got some glimpses into a fresher future, whether in the ...

A playlist of songs from artists including Liz Phair, Drake and John Cale that explain our critic’s year. By Lindsay Zoladz In my very first installment of this newsletter, I introduced myself and my ...

Spotify is stacking the most-beloved pop songs against one another in a new playlist. Spotify dropped its 100 Greatest Pop Songs of the Streaming Era list in a ranked playlist on Thursday, Feb. 26.

Listen to Pitchfork’s favorite songs of 2023 and you’re bound to be blown back by the full spectrum of human emotion: the dizzying high of new love (“Rush,” “Padam Padam,” “Super Shy”), the vengeful ...