Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection — it was a great year for all manner of indie-rock.
THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR ROCK ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.
The Rock has a lot cooking. The numerous Dwayne Johnson movies heading to theaters or on streaming in the near future sound like they will be keeping the multi-hyphenate busy for a while.
THE gushing of the billion-dollar international education market to the five DestiNations is sweet music to the ears of the government, universities and the general population as well.