Just like that, another year in music has come and gone. While 2025 won’t be remembered as an all-time great year for landmark albums, there were plenty of bright spots. Longtime favorites like ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

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The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Mercyhurst University announced today that Dr. Kathleen Getz, president since 2021, will retire on June 30, 2026, concluding a distinguished 35-year career in higher education and five years of ...

Nick Jonas is going solo – again. The 33-year-old singer and one-third of the Jonas Brothers announced Nov. 30 that he would release a solo album for the first time in nearly five years. The project, ...

"Sunday Best," Nick Jonas' new album, arrives Feb. 6, 2026. Nick Jonas is releasing new music. Over the weekend, the singer, who is one third of the Jonas Brothers, announced that he is releasing a ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Celebrating great releases from FKA Twigs, Wednesday, Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler, the Creator, and more Because, all things considered, this year has been very kind to music fans. When it comes to ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Special. Blending first-time nominees and performers with country music’s most celebrated superstars, this year’s lineup promises unforgettable moments from BigXthaPlug, Luke Combs, Ella Langley, ...

Time flies when you're rocking out and the last 25 years has given us some amazing rock and metal albums. It took plenty of discussion and debate amongst the Loudwire staffers, but we feel we've got a ...