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 ...

On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

Admittedly, I didn’t do my best at album exploration this year. I would power through listening to a project on new music Friday at the same pace I scroll through my social media feeds.These 10 were ...

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Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

We say this every year, but any list of the year’s best music books is even more of a losing proposition than best albums or songs, primarily because of the time investment — so any such list is ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

Every year, we read a lot of new music books, and it’s not only so that music-loving readers have holiday gift ideas for their loved ones, or just themselves; it also saves you time reading the bad or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charli XCX performs on the Orange stage at Roskilde Festival 2025 on July 2, 2025. (Credit: Joseph Okpako/WireImage) Rumors of MTV ...

Label of the Year: AD 93 Daring, heartfelt, and unpredictable, the London label has released some of the best music of the year. We talk to its founder, Nic Tasker, about the evolution of the singular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great music videos never left. If anything, the difference in this era is volume. There are more visuals than ever, thanks to an ...