Narrowing down a decade's worth of albums into a list of just 10 is brutal business. In a 10-year period that saw tremendous change in the musical landscape (goodbye, cassettes and CDs ... hello, ...

The 2000s was a pivotal period for alternative music. The genres that had been born and nurtured by the ’90s were now at their commercial and critical peak. Rock ‘n’ roll fused with heavier music, ...

This edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ looks at 15 albums that defined the melodic style of post-hardcore that took off in the early 2000s thanks to bands like At the Drive-In, Thursday, and ...

What were the best rock albums of the 2000s? The 2000s were an interesting period in the evolution of rock music. The decade started with the domination of nu-metal taking over with bands such as ...

The early to mid-2000s was an interesting time for rock and roll. During the ‘90s, which gave us grunge and alternative, it didn’t feel like many people wanted to be rock stars anymore. The new ...

Today, Taylor Swift is a global pop superstar who headlines stadium shows and moonlights as a country hitmaker, to the tune of Sugarland's "Babe" and Little Big Town's "Better Man." But back in the ...

Compact discs, or CDs, were revolutionary when they first emerged as a new medium for listening to music in the 1980s. Part of their success is alluded to in the name itself: the slim, compact size of ...