More of the Best Music You Didn't Hear in 202...

Nominations for the 2026 ACM Awards are out now and we have some questions. Rolling Stone’s Senior Music Editor Joseph Hudak and longtime RS contributor and author Marissa R. Moss break down five key storylines, from the dominance by this year’s women nominees to the wildly confu ...  Show more

From Taylor Swift to Tanya Tucker, country music has a rich history of child stars. Maddox Batson, at just 16, is the latest, drawing comparisons to a young Justin Bieber with his songs about middle-school crushes and country living. Maddox joins us in the Nashville Now cabin to ...  Show more

Everything else aside, 2020 was a banner year for music. In addition to some truly stellar albums and songs, there was also plenty of sillier stuff to dig into: misguided anthems about the pandemic, casual covers and collaborations, good and bad tweets galore, and of course, Bern ...  Show more

It’s New Music Friday with major releases from Normani and Cardi B, Pop Smoke and more. Plus, we’re breaking down the major front-runners in the 2022 GRAMMYs big four categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Billboard announces its first-ever MusicCon in Las Vegas, Sean "Diddy" Combs is hosting and executive producing the 2022 Billboard Music Awards and we take you behind the scenes of the Latin AMAs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Puja Patel, Jeremy D. Larson, and Anna Gaca talk about some of their personal faves from Pitchfork’s 50 Best Albums of 2023 list, including records by Amaarae, ANOHNI, Sofia Kourtesis, Kara Jackson, and SZA. They also lament some of the year’s biggest disappointments, like Lil Ya ...  Show more