Music & Culture

This year, pop critic Ann Powers offers something a little different — 10 deserving albums that might have topped lists in any other year.

Emerson Lake & Palmer's singer and co-creator, who died Wednesday, was at the forefront of a movement that took rock in a new literate — and liberating — direction.

There's something perversely funky about New Fries' freaky no-wave radiations. The band's video flips through a bizarro cable landscape in thickly brushed, brightly colored, MS Paint-style animation.

The SoCal psychedelic-soul band's new album, Freedom Is Free, is due out in March. Watch a video for its new single, "Friendship (Is A Small Boat In A Storm)."

The ban applies to ticket sales for any public event that can be attended by 200 or more people.

Until his dying day, Clark saw himself as a working artist. Both his biographer and co-songwriter Holly Gleason illuminate this late-career demo.

If one defining thread ran through 2016's best albums, it was an air of mystery: a sense of myth, otherworldliness, storytelling ambition or multimedia wizardry.

The All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk host shares his favorite recordings of the year.

In the midst of her searching, tough and vulnerable Raw, written after her divorce from Neil Young, Pegi Young covers a Ray Charles tune that seems to come from the other side of love.

The All Songs Considered host's list includes many records that felt particularly appropriate for such a turbulent year.