The best albums of 2022 include the Afghan Whigs, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, the London Suede, King Gizzard & and the Lizard Wizard, an album of Yoko Ono songs, Black Country, New Road and Drive-By Truckers. Welcome to the heart of our countdown of the best albums…

“Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono.” I’m convinced one of the reasons the aliens refuse to make contact is our species’ hot takes about Yoko Ono. Any sufficiently advanced civilization would certainly appreciate Ono’s boundary-breaking work, and the fact that she’s blamed for everything from the breakup of the…

I joke about running out of column ideas a lot in the intros to these things. And in the tagline to every column for over a year. And to my RIFF colleagues on Slack. And to my friends and relatives. And sometimes to the dog. It’s become somewhat of…