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Synths got out of control in 2011, but Lars Gotrich picks the best, plus drone and abstract guitar.

Albums by The Civil Wars, Drake, Kate Bush and others that moved one critic through a year in perpetual transit.

The band's unique sound, driven by its peculiar blend of trumpet, winds and strings, seems like a compelling soundtrack for an age when music genres are becoming increasingly arbitrary.

A new book skewers today's mindless corporate culture via the e-mails of Martin Lukes, a fictitious, ambitious, forty-something middle manager who works for a company that makes nothing in particular.

Havana-born writer Achy Obejas returns to her native city with a novel called Ruins. It's a bittersweet portrait of Cuban life in the mid-1990s.

Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.

There were a few surprises at Thursday night's ceremony that reflected how certain musicians are pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a pop musician.

Smucker joins a growing number of big food companies that have announced plans to eliminate artificial dyes.

Jim Walton, head of CNN Worldwide, has announced he will step down at the end of the year.

One of the most sought after producers in music brings a trio of familiar voices to the Tiny Desk.