All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen counts down listener picks for the ten best CDs of 2005, with NPR music reviewers Will Hermes, Tom Moon and Meredith Ochs. They also share some of their own ...

Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker offers his picks for the best music of the year, including Fiona Apple's latest album and a Bob Dylan DVD. He also addresses the topic of women in music, and he talks ...

Finalists for The 2005 Billboard Music Awards, to be distributed Dec. 6 during a ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and broadcast live on Fox. By Billboard Staff Below are the ...

San Antonio blues aficionados often lament that this city is not particularly supportive to blues musicians. But if SA’s blues community sometimes lacks for listeners and venues, it’s always been well ...

Mariah Carey capped her comeback, record stores saw fewer fans shuffling through their aisles and listeners continued to flock to the Internet to buy music. While music fans shunned retailers last ...

Consumers burning their own CDs are hurting the retail music business, the RIAA contends, even as the sale of digital downloads continues to explode. Meanwhile, the shipment of compact discs from ...

Nominees for the 33rd annual American Music Awards (AMA) to be distributed Nov. 22 in Los Angeles. By Billboard Staff Below are the nominees for the 33rd annual American Music Awards (AMA) to be ...

Dave Eggers' The Believer invites some of its favorite artists-- including Devendra Banhart, the Mountain Goats, and the Decemberists-- to provide covers of their contemporaries, resulting in a ...

The music recording industry has denied reports that it has already laid down plans to raid Australian Universities by the end of February in order to hunt for illegally shared music files. According ...

Highlighted by new songs from Black Eyed Peas MC Will.I.Am, G Unit members Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and St. Lunatic Murphy Lee, the in-game music line-up for NBA Live 2005 should be enough to get video ...

West’s second great album in 18 months has nothing so shocking as his Katrina-inspired “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” moment during a TV fund raiser for hurricane victims or so original ...