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.

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 ...

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

Rolling Stone staffers pick their favorite albums of 2025, from Bad Bunny to Clipse to Rosalia to Taylor Swift to Wednesday to Geese to Lady Gaga ...

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 ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

Here are Billboard Latin & Billboard Español editors' favorite albums from the year. See which one is No. 1. Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, released the first week of 2025, set the tone for a year ...

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 ...

The Apple-owned headphone brand has long put star athletes in its campaigns, but it's latest stars a streamer: IShowSpeed. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Beats, the Apple headphone, is turning to one of ...

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 ...

With all those Christmas cookies around, it might be a good idea to get your heart pumping this holiday season. The average American gains a pound or two between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — and ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...