This week’s question is a simple one: What was your favorite song of 2012? Jason Heller I gave Researching The Blues, the latest album by L.A. punk survivor Redd Kross, a decent grade in my A.V. Club ...

Paste’s Best of 2012 series continues through Dec. 31 and is made possible by our friends at Tretorn. With the rise of Soundcloud and Bandcamp, the single has begun to make daily music headlines.

This is what 2012 sounded like streaming on our phones, blasting through tiny laptop speakers, booming wirelessly in our living rooms and spinning on vinyl while hanging out with friends. These are ...

Sometimes 2012 felt like a continuous loop of the same seven pop songs (or maybe just one, “Some Young Gangnam Diamond That Never Called Me Maybe on a Payphone (Like, Ever),” if you prefer a mashup.) ...

All week we'll be counting down our favorite songs and albums of the year, and we'll have some more year-end features coming in the two weeks following. We'll return with reviews on January 2. Now, on ...

It's hard to believe, but the year is already almost halfway over! In the past six months, country radio has provided an awesome soundtrack to our 2012. Below is our pick for ten of the best songs of ...

My 25 favorite songs of 2012, including but not limited to: hits, obscurities, roller-disco jams, air-guitar disasters, rap anthems and dubious karaoke picks. And Van Halen, obviously. (Listen to most ...

Luke Bryan has two songs on the Top 40 Country Songs for December 2012 list -- both in the Top 10 -- but neither is the month's hottest. It's a repeat honor for one country duo, who just one year ago ...

There is so much more to a year in music than a top ten list. I boil my list down to the records I simply loved the most. It's not a well balanced list — there's no jazz, hip-hop, classical, world or ...

Some songs are so good, they remain a favorite of both the artist and their fans years later. These three country songs came out in 2012, but still sound great today, 13 years later. Carrie Underwood ...

Certain themes come up over and again in pop music: love, heartbreak, and… the economy? Okay, even if there aren’t songs about the debt limit or the fiscal cliff, there were a number of pop songs this ...

Another 365 days have come and gone. Sure, we had a ton of fun. We discovered a lot of cool new artists and said goodbye to a few favorites. But we also saw the rise of some terrible pop trash, and we ...