In 2013, Beyoncé changed the game. Though others (most notably Radiohead) had experimented with releasing music with no advance notice, the surprise release of her self-titled album was the ...

Global K-pop sensation BTS will return with a new full-length album on March 20, marking the group’s highly anticipated comeback as a full unit, according to Big Hit Music. On Sunday at midnight, BTS ...

The reunited K-pop superstars will reveal tour details in mid-January. By Mitchell Peters BTS has officially confirmed the release date of its upcoming album. On Sunday (Jan. 4), the K-pop superstars ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — For Angel Romero, every detail of her car is a reflection of her history. The shining purple paint job accents sleek gleaming chrome that flashes bright in the light of golden hour.

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

A May 2 oldies concert, “Joe Nardone Presents: Oh! What A Night of Music & Memories,” will feature Jay and the Americans, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Duprees at the F.M. Kirby Center for the ...

Any objective rap fan of a certain age approaches legacy albums like Nas and DJ Premier’s Light-Years with learned skepticism. For 30-odd years, rap was exclusively a young person’s game, defined by ...

One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, ...

From Mavis Staples to the Kronos Quartet—these are our music critic’s favorite works from this year. The Lebanese Civil War. Corporate agri-capitalism. Tips for surviving a nasty divorce. Violence, ...

Sandy Avila, a 42-year-old construction company office administration manager living in Pasadena, Calif., on her 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS lowrider, as told to A.J. Baime. I grew up around lowriders, ...

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 ...

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 ...