Daily Newsletter, January 3, 2025

As 2024 comes to a close, Atwood Magazine celebrates the music that had the greatest impact on our lives. Here are the best albums of the year!

From Andrew Bird to Tess Parks and Ambrose Kenny-Smith, bands and artists selected the likes of Jessica Pratt, Kim Gordon and The Smile for their best of 2024.

With all the buzz around Oasis’ 2025 reunion, here’s a revisit of the Britpop era – based on Discogs’ recommendation of top 10 essential albums.

The story of the exhilarating early ’60s birth of the Rolling Stones

This list looks at the top 12 supergroups based on worldwide album sales, some of which might shock you.

The music industry is entering a critical phase where AI could either amplify its value or decimate its foundations, real music, copyrights and artists

Motown were a record label responsible for churning out more hits than the public knew what to do with, which led to some great songs going unnoticed.

The 80s also saw the blues transform like never before, with Stevie Ray Vaughan drawing in hard rockers and purists alike and Robert Cray taking it to the masses

The writer Lucy Sante and the podcast host Ian Grant, both Bob Dylan experts, dissect the director James Mangold’s biopic starring Timothée Chalamet.