Tag: Music

Announcing a new feature on AllMusic where we're highlighting musicians and bands that are making waves on streaming services and also trending on international music charts. Expect to find unexpected pop, hip-hop, metal, K-pop, jazz artists, and maybe music in new styles not even invented yet.

A lot of great music in the 1980s didn't sell, and many of the best artists reaped neither fortune nor fame. Author Daniel de Visé covers 11 great records from the pre-Nirvana years, 1987 to 1990, focusing on albums that represent an artist's best work.

Over the past two-plus decades of recordings, songwriter Jason Isbell has been crafting a trilogy of "Don't" songs, offering advice about parenting, facing your fears, and proper cookware maintenance. AllMusic offers an examination of these lessons through the years.

Momma's 4th studio album, Welcome to My Blue Sky, is “an open letter to those who have come in and out of our lives,” detailing the ups and downs of love, friendship, and their summer 2022 tour. Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman spoke with AllMusic shortly before the release of Blue Sky, discussing the story and process behind the album, their upcoming tour, and current inspirations.

A few of the notable releases we reviewed this past month seemed to have a theme: lesser-known music. The complete nocturnes of John Field, newly recorded by Alice Sara Ott (pictured), seem to only appear on albums once a decade or so. Explore this and other unearthed and rediscovered gems in our classical highlights for March.

Subcultures have historically been tightly intertwined with their associated music styles (psychedelic rock, punk, goth, metal), but in the age of bite-sized social media interactions and broad internet homogeneity, are music-driven subcultures doomed?

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson spoke to AllMusic shortly before the release of the second album from his band Envy of None, and explained how it differs from the group's debut, in addition to chatting about songwriting, aspects of his personal life, and even a few Rush-related topics.

As the year progresses, we look to the future to guess at the upcoming releases from our favorite artists and pontificate as to what their new sounds will reveal. Here is a non-exhaustive list of albums that our editors have been anticipating in 2025.

Several recent releases that we found to be very satisfying cover music from the Baroque, specifically for church use. Among these were the solo vocal debut album Seelentrost by Isabel Schicktanz and the contemporaneous work Bach's Leipziger Choräle, which Masaaki Suzuki (pictured) starts on as part of his cycle covering Bach's organ music.

A fun item that many users may not know about is our "Birthdays On This Day" feature on the homepage of AllMusic. Each day we highlight 15 prominent musicians who were born on this date, from rock, to jazz, to hip-hop, to classical and every genre in between. Scroll down to see today's list.