2012 Grammy Winners’ Top 10 Songs

Listen to the best songs from this year’s Grammy winners on Made Man’s Spotify. …

Listen Up: Bret McKenzie’s Love Mix

What are the five best songs to listen to during sex? Given his extensive musical knowledge and his time with Flight of the Conchords, Bret McKenzie was happy to weigh in. Actually, he was caught off guard, but he was too classy to tell us to piss off. …

Listen Up: Music for Winter Workouts

If you’re someone who exercises outdoors, the chill in the air could be enough to derail your workout. That’s where music comes in. Hitting “play” on a list of upbeat tracks is the perfect way to offset the winter blues. …

Listen Up: The Super Bowl Playlist

Chest-bump and chug-out all you want, there’s nothing like a solid hour of pump-up jams to set the mood for football’s biggest game of the year. With that in mind, here’s a playlist designed specifically for that purpose. …

Listen Up: The Best New Garage Rock

Thanks to acts like The Black Keys, the genre has seen a healthy revival, spurring musicians to trade in cushy post-production effects for raw, lo-fi recordings. This 10-track playlist, available on Made Man’s Spotify, best captures what rocks today. …

Listen Up: Tyson Ritter’s Mood Music

Midway through a tour and with a new album dropping this spring, The All-American Rejects are one busy band. But that didn’t stop front man Tyson Ritter from taking the time to wax ecstatic about 10 of his favorite songs. We’re betting you’ll love them, too. …

11 Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Songs

Your festivities are only going to get so far on a steady diet of “Auld Lang Syne.” From Jay-Z and Kanye to JT and Britney, here are 11 of our favorite tracks from the 21st Century. Mix these into your playlist to keep the party going all night long. …

X-Factor’s Most Inspirational Tunes

We asked X-Factor’s final three what songs we should drop on an “inspirational” playlist. Sneak ’em on to your girl’s iPod and she’ll melt. …

The 11 Coolest Album Covers of 2011

The death of the CD has meant a resurgence in album artwork, and the past year has featured a number of truly impressive covers. We don’t necessarily endorse all the actual music on these records, but the aesthetics alone make them worth keeping around. …

12 Must-Play Christmas Songs

You’ve got to cue the classics around Christmas, but you can only hear so much Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole before things start to get stale. From Chuck Berry to She & Him, here are 12 tracks that’ll keep your holiday playlist fresh without spurning the oldies. …