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2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ultimate playlist

2018 offers an eclectic class for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — from groundbreaking gospel guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe and iconoclastic protest

20 artists eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who aren't in but should be

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has finally gotten around to correcting some of the most egregious oversights of its early years — but they also keep finding new ways to screw up, preferring commercial success and men with guitars to critical acclaim, experimentation, or diversity.

20 of the biggest acts snubbed by the Country Music Hall of Fame

It’s not easy to get into the Country Music Hall of Fame – there are only 136 members in the Nashville institution, compared to more than 300 inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was established more than 20 years later.

The ultimate Aerosmith playlist

The Boston bad boys in Aerosmith are survivors – they’ve lasted almost 50 years in the music business, bouncing back from breakups, commercial flops, and well-publicized struggles with addiction.

What the Grammys could learn from the Country Music Awards

Almost two months after the 2018 awards ceremony, the Grammys are still making news – and almost all of it is bad. Mariah Carey says she doesn’t give a

20 of the best concert films of all time

Images have always been an essential part of pop music, from Elvis and the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to MTV, the Super Bowl, and "Lemonade." The best pop and rock documentaries do more than just show artists on stage—they offer insight into the music, revealing something that sound alone can’t convey.

22 of the best Beatles covers

However you measure pop-music success – hit singles, album sales, industry awards, critical acclaim – the Beatles rank near the top. The band has maintained

Country music's 20 most exciting stars of 2018

Country music may care more about tradition than innovation, but nothing can stay the same forever. Here’s a list of 20 Nashville insurgents who are bringing new sounds and new perspectives to country music from southern soul, Nashville hit-makers, barroom poets to fearless feminism – this isn't your parents' country music.

22 Grammy winners we never listen to anymore

A Grammy carries a certain promise of immortality. Win one, just one, and your name is etched in history. But that’s no guarantee that you or your music will live on in people’s lives.

26 of the best artists who have never won a Grammy

Every year, there are plenty of wins to take issue with at the Grammys – who should have won, who shouldn't have won, who should have been nominated but wasn’t.

20 songs that should have won a Grammy

You could make a pretty good playlist out of the songs that should have won a Grammy but didn’t. From the Wall of Sound to the 11th-biggest single of 2013, here are some of the best songs the Grammys missed over the years that still resonate today. 

Old-school Grammy winners we still listen to

The Grammys aren’t a Hall of Fame. The awards recognize particular artists at a particular moment – and that moment doesn’t always stand up to posterity.

20 Grammy winners whose careers fizzled

Winning a Grammy doesn't guarantee a long and successful career in music. From losing bandmates to infighting, changing musical styles and few winners who were reluctant stars to begin with; here are some of the most notable Grammy winners for whom things took a downward turn after winning the award. 

Ranking the Grammy's choices for Best New Artist from 1997-2017

Best New Artist is a notoriously treacherous category for Grammy voters – and for the nominees, too, considering the award is sometimes regarded as a curse.

The best albums that didn't win a Grammy

The Grammy Awards are meant to celebrate the current moment, but they’re judged by how well the results hold up over time. One of the risks is honoring artists whose work doesn’t age well, but there’s also the risk of failing to recognize truly significant music at the time it’s being made.

20 artists who weren't afraid to get political in 2017

It was impossible to escape politics in pop culture in 2017 – even trying to remain politically neutral turned into a political act (see the CMA Awards and the conundrum NFL owners find themselves in).

40 of the most anticipated album releases of 2018

Every year is a big one in the music industry – new stars are made, old stars fade out, trends come and go, awards are handed out, Twitter battles are waged, reputations wax and wane.

40 great overlooked pop holiday albums

There’s a lot more Christmas music out there, from the weird and wild to the unimpeachably classic, with all sorts of odd and unpredictable stuff in between

2018 Grammys snubs and surprises, why top acts were left out

The predicted 2018 Grammy showdown between Kendrick Lamar and Ed Sheeran won’t be the main drama when the annual awards are announced on Jan. 28 – this year’s reminder that there’s no such thing as a sure thing at the Grammys.

Why we need more women in the 2018 Grammy nominations

The last few months of 2016 should serve as a reminder that the media, in general, isn’t very good at prognostication. There’s the coverage of the presidential election, of course – that’s the big lesson.

How has music changed with the recent loss of so many artists?

2016 seemed like an all-time downer of a year. And then 2017 got here.  Besides everything else – political chaos, natural disasters and "The Emoji Movie"

'Despacito' and more famous songs that were once banned

This summer, officials in Malaysia announced that Luis Fonsi’s megahit “Despacito”—now the most-streamed song of all time—won’t be welcome on government-owned radio stations in the country.

22 of the best duets through the years

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are the royal couple of pop-country duets, and their new album "The Rest of Our Life" out this month, is all duets—11 songs featuring McGraw and Hill together, the first such album they’ve released in their careers.

When college radio went mainstream—and 20 bands that came with it

In the early 1980s, a new generation of radio programmers took over the airwaves at college radio stations around the United States, introducing their fellow students to underground rock, British and European imports, regional punk scenes, and a different kind of hip-hop than you’d hear on commercial stations.