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15.02.2025

Classical Highlights for January 2025

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The Importance of Queer Visibility in Pop Music

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17.01.2025

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Our final reviews of 2024 covered the usual variety of music, and a few things did stand out. One was Bill & Friends, a celebration of William Christie's 80th birthday, for which…

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Frank Black Discusses his 2025 Teenager of the Year Tour and '90s Rock

Along with a handful of other bands, the Pixies certainly helped clear the path for bands like Nirvana, who made alt-rock the societal changing force it became in the early '90s.…

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02.01.2025

The 2024 AllMusic Readers' Poll

Our 2024 year in review coverage ends with the top 10 albums of the year as voted on by the AllMusic community. Respondents from all around the world made their choices, and we're…

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25.12.2024

AllMusic Loves 2024 Reissues

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AllMusic Loves 2024

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Cast Your Vote in the AllMusic 2024 Readers' Poll

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AllMusic's Best of 2024

Each year, the AllMusic editors look back through the albums that made the biggest impact, broke new ground, and just all-out moved us. Pop, rap, jazz, blues, classical and more.…

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05.12.2024

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05.12.2024

Classical Highlights for November 2024

As autumn continues in the northern hemisphere and the temperature outside falls, the instinct it to turn to more cozy settings, which is perfect for chamber music. Two outstanding…

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29.11.2024

The 2024 AllMusic Gift Guide

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21.11.2024

Stephen Pearcy Discusses 40th Anniversary Reissue of Ratt's Out of the Cellar

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Mother Mother's TikTok Renaissance

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12.11.2024

Classical Highlights for October 2024

The highlights of this month's new reviews seem to be mainly vocal releases, with a diversity of styles. Antonio Pappano, known for his opera conducting, leads an extraordinary…

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12.11.2024

Led Zeppelin's Influence on '70s Canadian Rockers

Throughout the course of popular music history, whenever an artist becomes massively popular, it's only a matter of time until a slew of similarly-sounding bands crash the scene.…

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30.10.2024

AllMusic's Favorite Actually Scary Albums

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23.10.2024

Cocaine & Rhinestones - Jukeboxes, Bullfighting, and George & Tammy

In constructing the mammoth "Cocaine & Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette," author and Nashville gadabout Tyler Mahan Coe has effectively Voltroned together…

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23.10.2024

Paul Di'Anno Remembered

Today (October 21, 2024) it was announced that Iron Maiden's early singer, Paul Di'Anno, passed away at the age of 66. And while a cause of death was not immediately mentioned,…

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19.10.2024

Jerry Cantrell Discusses I Want Blood, Collecting Riffs, '90s Grunge

Jerry Cantrell is seemingly never at a loss for guitar riffs – as heard in his work as either a co-founding member of Alice in Chains, or a solo artist. And on his fourth solo…

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Laufey: Gen-Z's Gateway to the Realm of Jazz

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07.10.2024

Classical Highlights for September 2024

Reviewers this month covered music well-known to wide classical audiences and much that will be new to many, both from recently written works and works neglected as time passed.…

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30.09.2024

AllMusic's Favorite Oasis Song that’s NOT on Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory

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10.09.2024

Art Alexakis Chats About Vinyl Reissues, Touring, Disinterest in Releasing New Records

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07.09.2024

Nearly Nilsson - Songs in the Key of Harry

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Notable albums from this month feature distinguished artists and musicians who will be new to many listeners. The Sixteen and its associated CORO label celebrated the 70th birthday…

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The '90s were arguably the decade of the jukebox soundtrack, with Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction granting permission for deep cuts and buried treasures to set the scenes. Meanwhile,…

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Classical Highlights for July 2024

The classical albums of note this month found our reviewers covering both the familiar in new ways and the unfamiliar. Among the former are orchestrations of Brahms' music by…

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Howard Jones Discusses Synth Pop, Playing at Live Aid, Classic Tunes

The '80s gave us quite a few new popular musical genres: college rock, hair metal, thrash metal, Madchester, and certainly, synth pop. And concerning the last-mentioned style,…

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Drop Nineteens' Greg Ackell Discusses Returning to Music and Their New Old Album

The Quiet Riot Song That Sounded Like Def Leppard's Hysteria…a Year Earlier

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Subscribe for an Ad-Free AllMusic - Now Accepting Venmo

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AllMusic Loves 2024

Cast Your Vote in the AllMusic 2024 Readers' Poll

AllMusic's Best of 2024

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The 2024 AllMusic Gift Guide

Stephen Pearcy Discusses 40th Anniversary Reissue of Ratt's Out of the Cellar

Mother Mother's TikTok Renaissance

Classical Highlights for October 2024

Led Zeppelin's Influence on '70s Canadian Rockers

AllMusic's Favorite Actually Scary Albums

Cocaine & Rhinestones - Jukeboxes, Bullfighting, and George & Tammy

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Jerry Cantrell Discusses I Want Blood, Collecting Riffs, '90s Grunge

Laufey: Gen-Z's Gateway to the Realm of Jazz

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Streaming Music and Sound Sample Clips on AllMusic

Favorite Albums of 2024...so far

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A Royal Scam

Howard Jones Discusses Synth Pop, Playing at Live Aid, Classic Tunes

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