A variety of newcomers and some of your favorite veteran rockers provided a wide array of standout songs in 2014. And for their efforts, the deserving acts have been rewarded with a nomination for the ...

It's December, which means you can't browse the web without coming across innumerable "best of 2014" lists. These lists provide a huge service — they collect the best of the year's music in one ...

Chicago house legend Green Velvet’s long-overdue sequel to the hilarious ’90s classic “Answering Machine,” this year’s collaboration with U.K. producer Patrick Topping sees the welcome return of ...

Those polished-to-perfection guitar licks. That incessantly singable chorus. That gorgeous bridge, with its weepy, sneak-attack strings and always-devastating lyric about damaged drywall. That ...

This list isn't meant to be definitive. Instead, it's an alphabetically ordered grab-bag of what some of The Atlantic's editors and writers listened to over and over again in 2014, from chart-topping ...

The year 2014 has been an exciting time in the history of country music. Superstar Garth Brooks began his highly anticipated comeback, two country songstresses teamed up for an unforgettably saucy ...

They weren't all hits -- in fact, one of the songs on this list of the most important songs of 2014 didn't even crack the charts. However, each made an impact in a much more meaningful way. Jake Owen ...

The music world runs on a "what have you done for me lately?" mentality. We’re obsessed with something one minute and couldn’t care less the next. That here today gone tomorrow dynamic has always ...

If there's one thing that gets us into the holiday spirit like no other, it's the familiar, Christmassy scent of a fresh evergreen tree. Of course, the geniuses at Glade decided to bottle this scent ...

2014 was another exciting year for metal, offering some amazing music from all ends of the metal spectrum. From avant-garde to thrash to extreme to doom to death metal, the songs below stood out among ...

2014 was an interesting year for electronic music. With so much resentment for EDM from critics and DJs alike, it made covering the scene very intriguing. That's not to say that mainstream, "easy" EDM ...

There were only 10 different No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Hot 100 in all of 2014 — and two of those were from Taylor Swift. Chart-toppers such as Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass,” Pharrell’s ...