The Washington Post Chris Richards
The best music of 2016: Beyoncé, Maren Morris and YG dominate
I've been making best-of lists for exactly 10 years now, and looking back, they don't all look so pretty. Each list suffers from an...
Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne’: Where the freaks have no game
After a week of listening to it, Lady Gaga's "Joanne" still sounds like a medium-size bowl of who cares. That's surprising, even though it...
Still think today’s country music sounds fake? Get real
The year's best country album comes from Maren Morris, and if the trophy gods deliver justice at the 50th annual CMA Awards on Wednesday,...
Did rock ‘n’ roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it achieve eternal life?
INDIO, Calif. - Americans got hooked on all kinds of nasty things in the 20th century, but nobody guessed that nostalgia-tripping would be the...
David Bowie taught us the limitless potential of renewal
Mourning David Bowie requires tremendous energy because there are so many David Bowies to mourn. The lost cosmonaut. The alien balladeer. The pansexual glamourpuss....
The best pop music of 2015: Young Thug, Ellie Goulding and Kelela shine
One sensible reaction to living in an insensible world is to create a world of your own, and that's exactly what we heard on...