The albums of 2024 hit us hard and soft, all year long. The music world was full of explosive chaos, all over the stylistic map, from the pop espresso on the airwaves to the club classics in your ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...