In a year saturated with excellent releases — luminous false starts idling in the shadow of this never-ending global tragedy — projects that maximized ferality won me over. Identifying and rejecting ...

The right song, deployed at the exact right moment, can elevate a show from amazing to near-divine. Lucky for all of us, 2021 TV featured a bunch of these transcendent tracks woven into our favorite ...

2021 is in the rearview, and we’ve already made a list of our our favorite albums of the year, as well as separate lists focused on punk/hardcore/emo/etc, screamo, ska, jazz, rap, the Indie Basement ...