Now, the fun part! Read on for personal favorites of 2022 from KCRW Music’s genre experts, airwave curators, devoted fans of Today’s Top Tune, and for the first time — the cold hard facts of the Top ...

The return of clubs and festivals this year meant that dance music finally felt like it was back to normal—not 2021’s “new normal” of tours on tenterhooks and will-they-won’t-they headliners, but the ...

At the end of every year, DJ Earworm, the Bay Area song-splicer born Jordan Roseman, combines dozens of current hits into a massive Girl Talk-esque mashup called “United State Of Pop.” This year’s ...

Swizz Beatz, Busta Rhymes, Method Man and Ice Cube are among the 20 hip-hop stars taking part in the finale to the 10 specials Cassidy has done, which started as an online pandemic phenomenon and came ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Jersey club is having its moment, and a lot of it is ...

In the first installment of our new music series, "Sample This," Boston Music Award-winner DJ Real P gives us a crash course on sampling, teaching us how artists use one song to make another. This ...

A relatively unknown 24-year-old DJ from Durban was crowned Ukhozi FM song of the year winner, much to the confusion of audiences. After years of causing controversy, the Ukhozi FM song of the year ...