Compiling a Top 10 list for Folk Alley is difficult because it wears so many different musical hats. Each hour, the music stream from WKSU... The Top 10 Folk Songs Of 2009, From Folk Alley The Top 10 ...

Combing through a year's worth of music and picking the best songs of 2009 was a matter of personal taste and what stuck with the listener for whatever reason. But many songs came to mind rather ...

We all have our own system for making a list of favorite albums. All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton goes entirely by memory. When December... Back in February, I wrote on the All Songs ...

NPR listeners cast thousands of votes for the year's best music (so far) and kept the race tight. In the end, Animal Collective edged out every other artist for both Best Album and Best Song. Artists ...

Now that we're firmly into the month of July, we're past the halfway point of 2009. That's when NPR's Music Team starts thinking about how the year stacks up ...

Well, it’s the last day of 2009. In the spirit of such things, I’m going to let you know about what I thought about the year in music. Get up-to-the-minute news ...

7) John Doe & the Sadies, Country Club (YepRoc): Two covers albums (which happen to share a classic Hank Williams tune) on one list may say a lot about the new material that’s out there right now.

For those of you with Spotify installed on your computers (pretty nifty if you can cope with the targetted ads), here's a playlist of some of the best music of 2009: ...