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The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop poll -- a tally of 2008's favorite albums and songs, as voted on by critics and writers -- is now live. TV on the Radio's Dear Science won the album vote, whi... Continue reading "Pazz & Jop 2008: TV On the Radio, M.I.A. Top Charts" >

Vintage Vinyl just released its list of best-selling LPs and CDs of 2008. (Physical product? Remember that?) Interesting to see how many local releases -- and how much hip-hop/R&B/rap -- is on the... Continue reading "Vintage Vinyl's Top 50 Best-Selling CDs and Top 25 Best-Selling LPs of 2008" >

So this is a wee bit late -- sorry, I've been battling a cold since New Year's Day, bah -- but hopefully still relevant: three "discs" worth of 2008 quality music. This is meant to be a companion list... Continue reading "2008: The Year in Song, A to Z Style" >

By Ben Westhoff Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) ... Continue reading "Busted Rhymes: The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008" >

Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing,... Continue reading "The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Latin Songs" >

(Words by Andrew Scavotto; photos by Annie Zaleski) After devoting a significant amount of time to exploring local music in 2008, moreso than in years past, I've decided to end the year by blogging a... Continue reading "Top Nine Local Moments of the Year" >

In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to ... Continue reading "Top 10 Indie Rock Albums of 2008" >

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt... Continue reading "Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008" >

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-... Continue reading "The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown" >

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. ... Continue reading "Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008 " >

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin.... Continue reading "Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed" >

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved t... Continue reading "The Top 10 Reissues of 2008" >

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of ye... Continue reading "Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008" >

In the RFT that's coming out later this week, our music writers will weigh in on what they liked -- and didn't like -- about music in the year 2008. Various writers from around the Village Voice Media... Continue reading "The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs" >