The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the music industry in 2020. With live performances cancelled and music venues forced to shut down, vast numbers of performers were thrown out of work. The livelihoods ...

Narrowing down any kind of list of music videos usually means separating the meaningful expressions of musical ideas from the flashy gimmicks. The best ones that you’ll see below manage to work in ...

They say that everything old is new again. That couldn't have been truer in 2020, when disco infiltrated pop, Fleetwood Mac became viral stars, and Glen Campbell and The Andrews Sisters joined my ...

This year’s most memorable music came from artists like Pop Smoke, Lil Uzi Vert, and Cardi B. These are Complex’s picks for the 50 best songs of 2020. By ...

When Pitchfork invited electronic composer Keith Fullerton Whitman to initiate us into the mysteries of ambient music a few years back, he asked, “What music isn’t ambient in the 21st century?” He ...

While our feet were planted firmly in the U.S. in 2020, largely barred from international travel, streaming data shows us our ears, at least, were wandering the globe. Figures from Alpha Data, the ...

One of the rare good things that 2020 will be remembered for is just how great and diverse a lineup of video games we got throughout the entirety of the year. From experiences that helped sunset our ...

In a year in which there were few ways to hear music beyond the comforts of your own home, music videos served as a welcome — if not essential — way to experience our favorite songs. From big-budget ...