A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

The singer-songwriter was up against Green Day, Ace of Base, Counting Crows and Crash Test Dummies at the 1995 ceremony ...

Algernon Cadwallader, “Trying Not to Have a Thought”; Amaarae, “Black Star”; Corridos Ketamina, “Corridos Ketamina”; Nick ...

After landing in the top three for many years, Bettreena “Betty” Jaeger takes first place in the Best Singer-Songwriter category, and if you’ve ever heard her darkly beautiful indie folk songs, you ...

As songs created by artificial intelligence become more common, the year’s best albums—from Rosalía, Geese, Wednesday and ...

Neko Case has never been one for love songs. Straightforward examples of the form are pretty rare in the repertoire the now 55-year-old artist has built up across nearly three decades as a ...

Charting three singles off his 1995 self-titled debut album, Brett James pivoted to songwriting in the early 2000s. If you were listening to country radio back then, James’ work was inescapable, ...

American singer-songwriter Brett James has died in a plane crash, aged 57. The Grammy award winner, best known for writing the Carrie Underwood song “Jesus, Take the Wheel”, was reportedly on board a ...

Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.