Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

NEW YORK (AP) — ‘Tis the season to put on some brand-new holiday music. The best way to get festive is to sing along to Christmas classics new and old. But don’t know what to press play on? We’ve got ...

‘Tis the season to put on some brand-new holiday music. The best way to get festive is to sing along to Christmas classics new and old. But don’t know what to press play on? We’ve got you covered. In ...

We love those classic Christmas recordings. And we cherish the chance to hear Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, Darlene Love and other greats sing these standards each ...

Sixty-eight songs and 135 scores have been included on checklists sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch who will vote in the Best Original Song and Best ...

Catch up on recent releases from Robyn, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mavis Staples and more. By Lindsay Zoladz By Lindsay Zoladz The end of the year is nigh, which means I’ve been hard at work putting ...

An iconic rock band is set to release two new songs nearly two decades after their last album. Guns N’ Roses announced a pair of singles, “Nothin’” and “Atlas,” will be released on Dec. 2. It will be ...

The top country songs of 2025 prove that the next generation has arrived, and we're not just talking about the artists. Important songs from this year broke on streaming platforms or social media ...

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 ...

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 ...