The deluxe box set incorporates multiple formats in its presentation. The original album and a set of rarities are included ...

You can say a lot about 2025. Good, bad, apocalyptic. One thing you can't say is that it was lacking in music. Our album ...

The end of the year, we are conditioned to believe, is a time of reflection. We take stock of milestones and accomplishments ...

2025 lookback: Trump yanks federal funding from NPR in move conservative advocates said was long overdue New Details on Nick Reiner’s Mental Health During Parent's Deaths Trailer parks are ...

Paste Magazine is The A.V. Club‘s source for music news and lists, artist interviews, and album reviews. I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far ...

The last 12 months have screamed by like a speeding comet, but not before delivering a staggering payload of genuinely great rock'n'roll. From old-stagers to returning cult heroes to prog titans and ...

In the making of this list and the yearly introduction that preludes it, the focus was to highlight cultural moments of awe from the year, while paying homage to the artists we’ve lost and other ...

Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...

In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

Three rock albums made Billboard's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2025 and one of them actually cracked the Top 10. This particular list consisted of staff picks and there are 30 writers credited on ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...

In other words, 2025 had plenty of peaks and valleys. In our list of the year’s top albums, we try to capture these trends and tell the story of a music scene that is fractured, matching a cultural ...