We cherry-picked 10 pop records destined to please those who consider “pop” a dirty word.

The Younger Now singer visited the alt-country star at New York’s Electric Lady Studios.

Also awaiting release: 17 new songs and a live recording of his Exile on Main Street tribute concert.

“That’s crazy. That’s a lot of wind.”

The song and animated video were made so Adams could do the live weather forecast on the local Denver station.

The singer-songwriter writes an ode to the station that premiered it.

A pair of indie darlings take the stage as part of the show’s season 14 finale.

He’ll be joined by Stones producer Don Was and an as yet-to-be-announced band of notable musicians.

Lizzy Goodman’s oral history of the NYC rock scene recounted a drug-fueled friendship between Hammond and Ryan Adams.

The follow-up to last year’s fantastic album, Prisoner, appears to be on the way.

“A song to one’s baby, whom they love — a unique twist on Ryan Adams’ classic recipe, with key ingredient ‘sad’ replaced ‘happy.’”

Here are the tracks that by and large reacted to the year with beauty and positivity.