The 50 Best Albums of 1981

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The 50 Best Albums of 1981 Popular music has always been in constant flux. But the early ’80s were a particularly jumbled time of emerging trends and genre revisionism: new wave, synth-pop, alternative rock, electro-pop and post-punk all rubbing elbows and butting heads. And, looking back in list form, 1981 […]

The 11 Best Chick Corea Albums

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When the news arrived on Thursday that jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Chick Corea had died of a rare form of cancer two days before, the music world was shocked. It was not just that Corea was a jazz “star” in an era when jazz was losing relevance, but that […]

The 25 Best Latin Albums of 2020: Staff Picks

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Arcangel, Los Favoritos 2  In this sequel to Los Favoritos, released in 2015, Arcangel stays faithful to his key to success: recruiting colleagues from the old and new schools of reggaetón to deliver thought-out tracks. The intro, “Payaso,” and outro, “Favorito,” where he gives his best advice to the younger […]

Top 40 Albums of 2020

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It’s a given that 2020 has been a year unlike any that most of us have ever experienced. Time seemed to fold in on itself (for me at least), and March to December seemed to go by in an instant but also in slow motion. If felt this way for […]