Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

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 ...

There is not a single region in Italy that doesn’t produce amazing wine values, from the tip of Sicily to the northern reaches of Alto Adige. Whether from familiar regions and grapes (Tuscan ...

Some of the best artisanal “Made in Italy”panettone are featured here. The delicious golden sweet bread is synonmous with Christmas in Italy but is a favorite all over the world. ByIrene S. Levine, ...

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The ...

The nominees for Best Rap Song at the 2026 Grammys are in. Grammy SZN has officially commenced. On Friday (Nov. 7), The Recording Academy revealed all the nominees for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards.

Who’s hungry? How about Italian? Because Jersey’s Best Podcast is all about Italian food this week, bambino! The latest episode of Jersey’s Best Podcast is out now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and ...

Metal's reputation in the 1990s isn't the most robust, but the best song of each year of this decade proves that when it comes to quality, this scene was thriving. While the overall commercial success ...

Billy Joel is one of the all-time great pop legends — the piano man who’s kept the world singing along for over fifty years and thousands of Saturday nights. He’s a songwriter with an attic full of ...

Tori Allen has been part of the restaurant world for more than 14 years, working in Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, D.C., Denver, and Los Angeles. She's a proud Buffalo native and current Chicago resident.

As we approach the halfway mark of 2025, among the things we have yet to find out are how many weeks Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” will spend at No. 1, when Lana Del Rey’s supposed country album ...