Daily Newsletter, December 28, 2022

See who captured the ears and hearts of No Depression's critics — the staff, contributors, reviewers, and columnists who bring you the best in roots music journalism all year long.

Which albums did Rolling Stone staffers love most this year? The answers range from beloved blockbusters to out-there sounds and new sensations of all kinds

From Spotify Wrapped to Apple Music Replay, these are all the services that will tell you what songs were on the soundtrack of your year.

SoundCloud has marked the end of the year by highlighting its top 10 scenes that shook up the platform in 2022.

Nick Paumgarten at The New Yorker: Todd Rundgren, the record producer, sound engineer, songwriter, and recording artist, has had such a strange career in the music business that it somehow does not seem strange that, at seventy-four, he has been performing in a David Bowie tribute band. This on the heels of a few Beatles-tribute…

Elvis Costello asked Prince if he could record his 1985 hit “Pop Life” for his compilation album and the answer was "no."

Letter: In South Africa, through music like The Specials, my friend and I discovered that our black and white friendship was normal, says Cornelia Köhler

Weirdly wonderful.

Here are Paste's picks for the best movies of 2022.

Another year of books comes to a close, and with it, the obligatory frantic listmaking—which at its best may inspire reminiscing, reconsidering, and excellent gift-purchasing, but at its worst may …