Goofy and mysterious album names are nothing new, especially during the 1960s and '70s. As we'll continue to see on this list, there are interesting backstories to some of the more strange ones ...

Born in the Wild' and "Love Me JeJe" also earned her 2025 Grammy nominations for Best Global Music Album and Best African Music Performance, respectively. Billboard has shared its list of best R&B ...

2024 will ultimately leave a mark in music history that’ll sit alongside 2016 as one of the best years for album releases. As 2024 comes to a close, this year has seen the release of several amazing ...

Segarra has roots in punk, and you can hear that in songs like "Hawkmoon" and "Vetiver," but some songs feature simple, strummy guitar and bass with spare drums. This album explores the beauty, ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. When I was small, we lived above my father’s office in Bed-Stuy. My father said he would spot me and my ...

These are the most read stories of 2024. After a dozen years on the job, Pete Wells stepped down as The Times’s restaurant critic this summer. In his last essay as the critic, he lamented how ...

The risk is overexposure, like the blanket coverage of Charli XCX’s Brat. But the album cuts through the surrounding noise. It hones the singer’s vanguardist dance-pop to its sharpest point ...

SZA announced on social media Monday that her long-delayed album “Lana” — a deluxe edition of her Grammy-winning second full-length “SOS” — will be released on Friday. The post ...

From Charli XCX’s global domination with Brat to Kendrick Lamar’s rap game-changing GNX, these are the best albums of 2024 according to our academic experts. GNX, Lamar’s sixth studio album ...

The new albums begin appearing even before radio stations start switching to 24-7 holiday playlists after Halloween, and they keep coming right up until the week of the big days. Every year brings ...

We asked Boston Globe music writers to tell us 50 of their favorite albums of 2024 ... uncensored sensuality (“Adicto”), tenderness (“Simple”), and lifelong yearning (“Como Debe Ser”).