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At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks for the best albums of 2025, the mere existence of the record we'd eventually name our No. 1 – in a landslide, it must be said ...

In 2024, the most memorable country albums were the projects that fell on one end or the other of a stylistic extreme. Some of the biggest splashes came from young-gun traditionalists, who released ...

When you think about it, watching a live band perform is a once in a lifetime experience, and not just in the sentimental sense. Allow Nancy Wilson of Heart to explain. "Because we play completely ...