Adele and streaming. Those are really the only two words you need to remember when thinking back on the year in music 2015. But for those that want a deeper dive, here’s how the year shook out.

Bob loves it. He hates it. He's on the fence about it. Lyrics from Courtney Barnett's "Pedestrian At Best," from Bob Boilen's favorite album of 2015, could also stand in for his feelings about the ...

I’ve been making Google spreadsheets of my favorite albums and songs for years. They’re useful but sort of clunky, like a rainbow layer cake drawn by an Amazon fulfillment bot. The music I feel most ...

NPR's Linda Wertheimer likes Buddy Holly and Bill Haley, so Stephen Thompson brings her playlist up to the present day with songs from Leon Bridges, the Alabama Shakes, Elle King and Sleater-Kinney. A ...

2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen’s year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams – that’s a doubling from 2014, ...

Passion projects premiering at the film portion of Austin festival are some of the confab's best offerings. By Phil Gallo, Billboard The South By Southwest Film Festival, which starts March 13, ...

The year's most outstanding hip-hop music includes protest anthems, melodic coups, the return of grime to Stateside awareness and a Broadway soundtrack about a Founding Father.

The year's best music reads included open books on a roots-rocker, a dance icon, a punk poet and a rap pioneer; not to mention deep looks at everything from the Vietnam war to the current EDM ...