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RnB
World, Reggae + Latin
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Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
Diet Cig’s Stuck Inside Playlist
Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
Indie Rock Face-Off: Neo vs. ’90s
Indie Bedroom Jams
The U.K.’s Most Unlikely Top 40 Hits
The New New New Post-Punk
R.I.P. David Berman
The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
Children of Kraftwerk
A Warm Bath for Your Soul
The 40 Best Electronic Tracks of 2019
Rituals of Mine’s Playlist: Cryin’ in Public
Turning Jewels Into Water’s Playlist: Beats and Rituals
50 Songs in 5 Minutes
The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
The Top 50 Electronic Tracks of 2018
How Germany Won at Synth Pop
The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
Your Music Horoscope: Sagittarius Season
Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
Your Music Horoscope: Virgo Season
The OGs of Emo-Rap
Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
The Top 50 Hip-Hop Tracks of 2018
The Sound of Liberation: Free Jazz Jams for Independence Day
The Other Sides of Little Richard
A Warm Bath for Your Soul
Lady Plays the Blues: Killer Female Blues Guitarists
Haruki Murakami’s Vinyl Collection
Erik Deutsch’s Hammers, Strings, Stops & Knobs
Kamasi Washington, Bob Dylan, and the Idea of Gateway Artists
How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
Astral Traveling: The Ecstasy of Spiritual Jazz
Kamasi Washington and The Politics of Culture in Trump’s America
Prince: A Guide to the Indie Years
Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
Prince’s Sign O’ The Times: Unpacked
Caipirinha Time: Cool Brazilian Sounds for Summer
How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
Fusion Beats by De’Anza
For “Winnie”: Anti-Apartheid Songs of Protest
David Byrne Presents: The Beautiful Shitholes Playlist
Khruangbin’s South Goa Beach Playlist
Welcome to Psych 101
The Best Bossa Nova
The Ultimate Guide to Latin Alternative Music
The Best Syrian Music
50 (Mostly) Splendid Years of Sparks
Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
Androgyny at Its Best
The Other Sides of Little Richard
Children of Kraftwerk
Pitchfork’s Recommended if You Like Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia Playlist
The Beatles’ Influence on Modern Pop
Tame Impala’s Road to The Slow Rush
The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
Maya Beiser: Music for the Day After
A Tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson
The 20 Greatest Conductors of All Time
Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Season Two Soundtrack
Beethoven: The Essence of Change
HighSchoolMixtape: How I Got Into Classical Music
Nine Inch Nails’ Most Devastating Dirges
70 for Tom Waits at 70
Under the Radar Magazine’s Slept On #1
Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
Happy Samhain: Ringing In the Dark Half of the Year
Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
50 Songs in 5 Minutes
Other Tongue: Songs Sung in Fake Languages
R.I.P. David Berman
The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
Eras
’60s
’70s
’80s
’90s
’10s
’00s
Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
The Original Riot Grrrls: Rock’s First All-Female Bands
The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
Doors of Perception: The Songs That Introduced the World to Psychedelics
The Influence of The Lizard King: Great Artists Who Loved the Doors Madly
The Dark Dreams of The Doors, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud
Echoes: The Impact of “Break on Through (to the Other Side)”
It Ain’t Me: The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival
How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
The Most Punk Proto-Punk
Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
Last Night a Disco Compilation Saved My Life: A Chat with Bill Brewster
Sylvester’s Mighty Realness
Studs, Synths, and Liberation: A Brief History of SF Disco
Revolution, With Bongos: The Indie Disco Explosion
Echoes: Foreigner, “Juke Box Hero”
The Foreigner Strut: Mick Jones and Lou Gramm’s Sweet Science of Swagger
David Bowie’s Rockin’ Ronson Years
The Eternal Coolness of ’80s Coming-of-Age-Movie Music
Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 1980s
Sometimes They Won’t Let You: Tina Turner and Other Genre-Benders
Why Tina Turner’s “The Best” Is The Perfect Workplace Soundtrack
Obscene Bass: Revisiting Miami’s Invasion of White Suburbia
Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
Psychedelia in the ’80s
The Best Michael Jackson Songs of All Time
1995: The Year Alternative Peaked
The Year in ’90s Metal
Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
Out of the Stacks: ’90s College Radio Staples Still At It
Was 1993 the Greatest Year in Music?
Concrete and Snare Drums: DJ Premier’s 25 Best Beats
’90s Alt-Pop Revisited
The Best Britpop Deep Cuts and Forgotten Faves
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anil Dash Teach You a Thing About New Jack Swing
Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
2010s: How The Swedes Dominated Another Decade
The Best 10 Hours of Music from 2018 (So Far)
Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
Is It Time to Boycott KANYE?
The Chillwave Effect
The Definitive Guide to Modern Rap for Old-School Hip-Hop Heads
Sharon Jones and the Daptonization of Modern Pop
The Legacy of Burial’s Untrue
Alt-Country Women You Need to Know
Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
The Chillwave Effect
Blog Rock Revisited
Electroclash Forever
Whatever Happened to My (Early 2000s) Rock ‘n’ Roll?
How the L.A. Beat Scene Changed Modern Music
New York Still Cares: Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights Turns 15
The Feminist Guide to Trap Music
How LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver Became the Gold Standard for Modern Dance-Punk
Why Linkin Park Were So Much More Than a Nu-Metal Band
Features
Artists
Essentials
Influences
Covers
Artist-Curated Playlists
B-Sides + Guest Spots
Behind the Boards
70 for Tom Waits at 70
National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs About the Apocalypse
Unholy Sacrament: The Best of Deerhunter
Four Tet’s Top 50 Remixes, and How They Provide a Key to Understanding His Music
Why Nicolas Jaar is This Generation’s Most Important Electronic Musician
Future & Zaytoven: Just Like Bruddas
Kanye Goes South
The Campaign to Save Migos’ Culture II
The Sunny Side of Mark E. Smith
Children of Kraftwerk
Before & After Radiohead’s OK Computer
The Go! Team’s Technicolor Pep Rally
Todd Hyman of Carpark Records’ 1990s Soundtrack
Thom Yorke’s Favorite Songs
Tyler, the Creator’s Odd Influences
200 Songs That Explain Frank Ocean
Petty Persuasion
The Best Steely Dan Samples
A$AP Mob’s Favorite Records
Phish’s Coolest Covers
Ted Leo’s Best Covers
10 Big Hits Jeremih Has Recently Remade
Yo La Tengo’s Covered
Feeling Good, A Dozen Ways
The Bobby Lees’ Alive Playlist
Rafael Anton Irisarri’s East of the River Hudson Playlist
Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
Konradsen’s Playlist
Lettuce’s Top 21 Favorite Quincy Jones Songs
Chris Maxwell’s Playlist
Windy & Carl’s The Post-Rave Comedown Playlist
Poguetry’s Playlist
Forever’s Playlist
Loving’s Playlist
The Agony and Ecstasy Of Loving Nas
Chance the Rapper’s 30 Best Guest Verses
JAY Z Is Choosing His Streaming Service Over His Legacy—And That’s Wrong
R. Kelly Remixes Himself
Vince Staples Collaborations: Anybody’s Killer
The Art of Robert Glasper
Captain Beefheart Insanity
Going Dutch: Kendrick Lamar’s Best Guest Verses
The Best of Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers Mixtapes
Verbal Assassin: Best Nas Guest Verses
Dan Auerbach: Life Beyond The Black Keys
Behind the Scenes: Jack Antonoff
Metro Boomin’s Greatest Hits
Hot Chocolate: Damu The Fudgemunk’s Premier Productions
Mike WiLL Made-It’s Next Phase
Behind The Scenes: Butch Walker
Top New Music
Staff Mixes
Trusted Sources
Welcome Back: 2020’s Returning Class
I Wish I Was a Spy: A Bond Movie Music Spectacular
Sly and the Family Stone: They Still Want to Take You Higher
Caipirinha Time: Cool Brazilian Sounds for Summer
50 (Mostly) Splendid Years of Sparks
The Eternal Coolness of ’80s Coming-of-Age-Movie Music
The Versatility of Ennio Morricone
The Stooges’ Fun House at 50
How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
P-Funk Sampled: 50 Years of Freeing Minds and Asses
Spotify’s Top 100
Pitchfork’s Best New Tracks
Spotify’s New Music Friday
Billboard Top 100
Ambrosia For Heads Weekly
Pigeons & Planes’ P&P Weekly
The Fader’s Songs You Need in Your Life
Genres
Indie
Electronic
Hip-Hop
Jazz + Blues
RnB
World, Reggae + Latin
Pop
Classical
Rock + Alternative
Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
Diet Cig’s Stuck Inside Playlist
Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
Indie Rock Face-Off: Neo vs. ’90s
Indie Bedroom Jams
The U.K.’s Most Unlikely Top 40 Hits
The New New New Post-Punk
R.I.P. David Berman
The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
Children of Kraftwerk
A Warm Bath for Your Soul
The 40 Best Electronic Tracks of 2019
Rituals of Mine’s Playlist: Cryin’ in Public
Turning Jewels Into Water’s Playlist: Beats and Rituals
50 Songs in 5 Minutes
The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
The Top 50 Electronic Tracks of 2018
How Germany Won at Synth Pop
The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
Your Music Horoscope: Sagittarius Season
Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
Your Music Horoscope: Virgo Season
The OGs of Emo-Rap
Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
The Top 50 Hip-Hop Tracks of 2018
The Sound of Liberation: Free Jazz Jams for Independence Day
The Other Sides of Little Richard
A Warm Bath for Your Soul
Lady Plays the Blues: Killer Female Blues Guitarists
Haruki Murakami’s Vinyl Collection
Erik Deutsch’s Hammers, Strings, Stops & Knobs
Kamasi Washington, Bob Dylan, and the Idea of Gateway Artists
How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
Astral Traveling: The Ecstasy of Spiritual Jazz
Kamasi Washington and The Politics of Culture in Trump’s America
Prince: A Guide to the Indie Years
Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
Prince’s Sign O’ The Times: Unpacked
Caipirinha Time: Cool Brazilian Sounds for Summer
How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
Fusion Beats by De’Anza
For “Winnie”: Anti-Apartheid Songs of Protest
David Byrne Presents: The Beautiful Shitholes Playlist
Khruangbin’s South Goa Beach Playlist
Welcome to Psych 101
The Best Bossa Nova
The Ultimate Guide to Latin Alternative Music
The Best Syrian Music
50 (Mostly) Splendid Years of Sparks
Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
Androgyny at Its Best
The Other Sides of Little Richard
Children of Kraftwerk
Pitchfork’s Recommended if You Like Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia Playlist
The Beatles’ Influence on Modern Pop
Tame Impala’s Road to The Slow Rush
The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
Maya Beiser: Music for the Day After
A Tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson
The 20 Greatest Conductors of All Time
Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Season Two Soundtrack
Beethoven: The Essence of Change
HighSchoolMixtape: How I Got Into Classical Music
Nine Inch Nails’ Most Devastating Dirges
70 for Tom Waits at 70
Under the Radar Magazine’s Slept On #1
Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
Happy Samhain: Ringing In the Dark Half of the Year
Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
50 Songs in 5 Minutes
Other Tongue: Songs Sung in Fake Languages
R.I.P. David Berman
The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
Eras
’60s
’70s
’80s
’90s
’10s
’00s
Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
The Original Riot Grrrls: Rock’s First All-Female Bands
The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
Doors of Perception: The Songs That Introduced the World to Psychedelics
The Influence of The Lizard King: Great Artists Who Loved the Doors Madly
The Dark Dreams of The Doors, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud
Echoes: The Impact of “Break on Through (to the Other Side)”
It Ain’t Me: The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival
How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
The Most Punk Proto-Punk
Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
Last Night a Disco Compilation Saved My Life: A Chat with Bill Brewster
Sylvester’s Mighty Realness
Studs, Synths, and Liberation: A Brief History of SF Disco
Revolution, With Bongos: The Indie Disco Explosion
Echoes: Foreigner, “Juke Box Hero”
The Foreigner Strut: Mick Jones and Lou Gramm’s Sweet Science of Swagger
David Bowie’s Rockin’ Ronson Years
The Eternal Coolness of ’80s Coming-of-Age-Movie Music
Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 1980s
Sometimes They Won’t Let You: Tina Turner and Other Genre-Benders
Why Tina Turner’s “The Best” Is The Perfect Workplace Soundtrack
Obscene Bass: Revisiting Miami’s Invasion of White Suburbia
Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
Psychedelia in the ’80s
The Best Michael Jackson Songs of All Time
1995: The Year Alternative Peaked
The Year in ’90s Metal
Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
Out of the Stacks: ’90s College Radio Staples Still At It
Was 1993 the Greatest Year in Music?
Concrete and Snare Drums: DJ Premier’s 25 Best Beats
’90s Alt-Pop Revisited
The Best Britpop Deep Cuts and Forgotten Faves
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anil Dash Teach You a Thing About New Jack Swing
Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
2010s: How The Swedes Dominated Another Decade
The Best 10 Hours of Music from 2018 (So Far)
Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
Is It Time to Boycott KANYE?
The Chillwave Effect
The Definitive Guide to Modern Rap for Old-School Hip-Hop Heads
Sharon Jones and the Daptonization of Modern Pop
The Legacy of Burial’s Untrue
Alt-Country Women You Need to Know
Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
The Chillwave Effect
Blog Rock Revisited
Electroclash Forever
Whatever Happened to My (Early 2000s) Rock ‘n’ Roll?
How the L.A. Beat Scene Changed Modern Music
New York Still Cares: Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights Turns 15
The Feminist Guide to Trap Music
How LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver Became the Gold Standard for Modern Dance-Punk
Why Linkin Park Were So Much More Than a Nu-Metal Band
Features
Artists
Essentials
Influences
Covers
Artist-Curated Playlists
B-Sides + Guest Spots
Behind the Boards
70 for Tom Waits at 70
National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs About the Apocalypse
Unholy Sacrament: The Best of Deerhunter
Four Tet’s Top 50 Remixes, and How They Provide a Key to Understanding His Music
Why Nicolas Jaar is This Generation’s Most Important Electronic Musician
Future & Zaytoven: Just Like Bruddas
Kanye Goes South
The Campaign to Save Migos’ Culture II
The Sunny Side of Mark E. Smith
Children of Kraftwerk
Before & After Radiohead’s OK Computer
The Go! Team’s Technicolor Pep Rally
Todd Hyman of Carpark Records’ 1990s Soundtrack
Thom Yorke’s Favorite Songs
Tyler, the Creator’s Odd Influences
200 Songs That Explain Frank Ocean
Petty Persuasion
The Best Steely Dan Samples
A$AP Mob’s Favorite Records
Phish’s Coolest Covers
Ted Leo’s Best Covers
10 Big Hits Jeremih Has Recently Remade
Yo La Tengo’s Covered
Feeling Good, A Dozen Ways
The Bobby Lees’ Alive Playlist
Rafael Anton Irisarri’s East of the River Hudson Playlist
Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
Konradsen’s Playlist
