The A.V. Club has had a lot of fun looking back at the year 2004 this week, and more broadly, bringing back our annual retrospective package. Now, as is customary, we’re capping off the week with a ...

The good, the bad, the bizarre, the befuddling , This wasn't just a good year for pop culture. It was an absolutely brilliant year. Sure there are easy jokes to be had at the expense of the likes of ...

Throughout history, people have claimed that music was better when they were younger, but we finally decided to put it to a scientific (who are we kidding) test. So we went back to the charts exactly ...

Usher owned 2004 from front to back with one of the great album eras of the entire 21st century. By Ross Scarano (In 2018, the Billboard staff released a list project of its choices for the Greatest ...

To say that the 2004 edition of the annual Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco was unwieldy would be an understatement. In excess of 127 bands played over the course of six days at a wide variety of ...

Music critic Ken Tucker gives us his top picks in pop for 2004. He runs down his 10 best albums, and then talks about some trends of 2004, such as the return of punk, the year of the hip-hop producer, ...

Friday morning, February 27. I got the call from the Noise Pop PR liaison informing me that my +1 to that night's Super Furry Animals show had been cut due to the fact that the show was sold out and ...

There are many potential nominees, including, but not limited to, Howard Stern becoming a Bush-basher, "Fahrenheit 9/11," the shocking popularity of "Desperate Housewives," and even the murder of Dime ...