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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

You can’t go to every concert, especially those that happened decades before you were born. But the best live albums can take you there. At a certain point, every album used to be a live album, at ...

Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter and Bad Bunny. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Focus on Sport/Getty Images, Kevin Mazur/Getty Images, Todd Owyoung/Peacock via Getty Images) While music’s ...

This month in 1991, pop legend Michael Jackson released his eighth studio album and his fourth under Epic Records, Dangerous. The album features Jackson’s usual genres: R&B, pop and rock. With the ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

The 2026 Grammy Award nominations are in and the Best Rap Album category is stacked this year. Doechii was presented the award by Cardi B, who won the Best Rap Album ...

It's a particularly freaky Friday, with Halloween falling on every music fan's favorite morning of the week. A few artists are embracing the holiday Spirit with legitimately eerie new releases, while ...

View post: Zoe Saldaña's Net Worth Makes Her the Queen of Every Universe The guitarist and founding member of the famous band KISS, Ace Frehley, has died at 74, following complications from a fall.