High Desert musicians, from the international stage to backyard shows. Here is the music that was released this year from ...

Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic ...

Latin music has never been harder to categorize, and in 2025, a treasure trove of traditional rhythms came to the pop-culture forefront, hybridized with cutting-edge production from the realms of ...

Get New Year's songs from global traditions. Perfect tracks for countdown, dancing, and reflection. Build your celebration ...

As we finish out 2025, we’ve been asking artists about their favorite albums of the year, and La Femme frontman and ...

Elesban Rodríguez, director of Costa Rica's Banda Municipal de Zarcero, makes history as the first Latino on a Rose Parade ...

Sometimes a simple rhythmic change takes you into a whole new creative direction. That’s the case with Bay Area songwriter ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

Every month, Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors spotlight a group of rising artists that should be on your radar. See the December picks.

The year 2025 was rich with new original music from New Jersey and here's a sample of the 13 best the state has to offer.

This year in country music was all about artists discovering ways to innovate old forms and traditions. In some cases, like Eric Church’s Evangeline vs. the Machine and Carter Faith’s stunning debut ...