If you're after great classic rock, Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, Television's Marquee Moon, and Black Sabbath's Paranoid are ...

The music industry has gone through cycles. First it was vinyl, then cassettes and eight-tracks (ugh), CDs, and so on and so on. What goes around comes around and vinyl is back in fashion. The sound ...

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One more album from the '70s made it into the top five: Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1979) was ranked at #4 ...

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More than 60 years later, Elvis Presley’s 1957 Christmas album is still the best-selling holiday record ever made.

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Willowtip Records / Reigning Phoenix Music / Season of Mist / Inside Out Music / Napalm Records Which progressive metal records blew us away the most over the last dozen or so months, you might ask?

NPR Music critics, editors and Tiny Desk producers each singled out one album they would recommend to anyone who came calling. The elite, no-skips albums of the year.