Daily Newsletter, December 19, 2024

From Charli xcx's Brat to Ravyn Lenae's Bird’s Eye and Bladee's Cold Visions, these are The FADER's 50 best albums of 2024.

As 2024 comes to a close, Atwood Magazine celebrates the music that had the greatest impact on our lives. These are our favorites - the tracks that influenced and inspired us the most. Here are the best songs of the year!

MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the extremely online and extremely offline. The starlets you meme about on social media aren’t necessarily making the songs you hear 20 times on the radio on your commute, or in the coffee shop picking up breakfast, or out at the pool’s pumped-in speakers. 2024 had an especially sharp divide; compare the charts to the conversation, and you’ll see what I mean.

As a long and eventful 2024 draws to a close, NME remembers the influential and beloved musicians who left us this year

skaiwater, Cindy Lee, and DJ Anderson do Paraíso’s sound nothing alike, but each flaunts convention in their own way,

MAGNET’s Matt Ryan picks the best hard-rock releases of the year

Why John Lennon called 'Within You Without You' from The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's 'Lonely Hearts Club Band' "one of George Harrison's best" songs.

10 movies that offered new perspectives on familiar themes.

Today, Keith Richards turns 81. It’s a hopeless cliche to talk about all the stuff that Richards has survived, so I’m not going to do that. I’m just going to say that Keith Richards is now 81 years old. He is one year younger than Joe Biden and three years older than Donald Trump. To celebrate Richards’ big day, Susanna Hoffs and Elvis Costello have gotten together to cover “Connection,” a song from the Rolling Stones’ 1967 album Between The Buttons.