2016 will forever be remembered as the brutish year that waded through the music industry with a scythe and a heavy hand. It took from us the likes of David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Sharon Jones, two thirds of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, George Michael, Glenn Frey, Merle Haggard, Maurice White, and Leon Russell. It’s the sort of year that future generations will look back on and ask, “Did it seriously start because somebody shot a gorilla?” We’ll pat them on their little heads and tell them to finish eating their soylent, while we continue to stare uncomfortably into the abyss that our lives will have become. Continue reading The Best Music Of 2016 →