Our editor and founder Henderson lists his favorite albums of 2019!

All in all, Styles’ sophomore record works because Fine Line is personable. It meets one for coffee at the break of dawn. It’s the voice crackling through the receiver of a late-night phone.

Our favorite albums of the year (complete with a playlist), plus the winners of our 4 yearly awards (AOTY, Best Debut, Best Non-LP, and Most Underrated)

Chances are it will take you longer to read this writeup than to listen to Perennial's brand new track, "Lauren Bacall In Blue". As usual, Perennial comes out guns blazing with a quick drum beat soon joined by blaring guitars, which leads way into distorted, staccato lines

Equally dazzling in black and white as they are in technicolor, Gully Boys are redefining rock and roll with each spoofy nod to the boy bands that ruled the scene decades ago. Check out their new video for “New Song No. 2”.

New Hell’s dimness makes it apt for ushering in winter. It’s a case study in how beauty can be molded from even the eeriest of things.

“Inspired by the classic taste of a good ol half & half beverage,” Teamonade is a three piece out of Bowling Green, Ohio. Their sound is vibrant and feels like an exuberant mix of jazzy, math-rocky emo that has the same zing as a really, really good Arnold Palmer.

New to the world of personal expression through songwriting, Zach Mackey has crafted a beautiful, personal narrative in his debut EP, Just Boy Things. The album is an exploration into crafting identity based on your individual truth.

Giana wrote about seeing The Dodo's play 'Visiter' live and took some awesome photos.

This year we are sponsors of FEST for the first time ever, and we picked a good one because the lineup is a nearly endless list of the coolest bands in punk, alternative rock, and DIY. Here are a bunch of our favorites from the lineup that you should definitely get listening to.

Even if someone listened to Yeah is What We Have without knowing that frontperson Tom Werring used to work with Oso Oso’s Jade Lilitri as part of State Lines, they could potentially draw a comparison anyway. Bineet spoke with Tom about the different directions his life took - and how many of them were underscored by music.

Olivia interviewed Short Fictions for the newest installment of her series Meet The Band.

In the span of 8 days, 3 of the best rap albums of 2019 dropped. 3 artists from different parts of the country, and they’re all students of the art of rapping.

The Lazy Susans set out to write a powerful and cathartic album when they set their eyes on Now That The Party’s Over. Throughout the painful subject matter and darker tone, it’s impressive to see a group balance the dreadful with their hazy shoe-gaze sound.

Expansive and seizing and dim, Rosie Tucker’s new single “Ambrosia” could have been excerpted is cautiously mapped out, with enunciated words and suppressed instrumentation that never dares to intercept what Tucker is articulating.