COUNTDOWN: Bidding farewell to 2024, The Independent’s music critics Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown count down the best albums ...

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Iron Maiden brings two of their most successful albums, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time, back to the U.K. charts—multiple ...

TV On The Radio, Major Lazer, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, and Alvvays put out some of the month’s finest vinyl releases.

Headless Cross, Tyr, and Cross Purposes—all debut on charts in the U.K. this week, and they all manage to land on the same ...

From flagrant nudity to cartoon bestiality, there are all sorts of reasons cover art can spark controversy. Kevin E G Perry ...

Dan + Shay: “It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album”: A two-album set, this duo’s holiday effort starts out rather ...

The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef took over the hip-hop world in 2024, but the rappers had been trading barbs for years ...

After crossing over from country music to pop music at the turn of the 2010s, Taylor Swift achieved success like we've never ...

The art of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, the artist behind the band’s album covers, will be featured together for the first time in a public exhibition in England.The Oxford ...