Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl." Swift put out the word on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday, her site ...

Stopgap cash grab by the record company or the result of artist indulgence that can't be contained within the usual confines of a single LP? The double album has been both throughout its long and ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired up with a lyricist named Bernie Taupin in 1967. Dwight adopted the stage ...

Tired of having to scrap their way through the streets of West Compton in the early 1970s, A.C. Moses and his childhood friends banded together to defend against the other local gangs that were ...

Even though the long-playing album had been around for more than a decade, and artists were using the form to construct entire thematic works from individual songs, the format came of age in 1965.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Step back in time to the vibrant sounds of the 70s at the New Jersey ...

Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed less ...

The death of the album has been proclaimed many times, and after decades of piracy and point-and-click listening, cohesive bodies of work have indeed lost some of their cultural stature. Yet the long ...

Without question, Metallica are the most formidable, popularized and influential band in the heavy metal genre. No other band in heavy music wields the same number of masterfully crafted albums or the ...

We’re halfway through 2024 and just posted a list of our 40 favorite albums of 2024 so far, which includes multiple genres of music, including metal. For even more metal, we’ve now put together a list ...

I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this. I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the ...

Artists across pop genres are finding success with colored vinyl and different variants of their releases. For Swifties, the urge to collect them all is strong. By Ben Sisario When Taylor Swift ...