If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers ...

Nelly and Metro Boomin are reviving the St. Lunatics with their first album in 25 years, set for 2026. Get the full story on ...

Nas and DJ Premier, two of the most important architects in rap history, have finally delivered their long-discussed ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

Hip-hop entered the new millennium carrying heavy losses. The murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. left the genre reeling, while Y2K anxieties cast uncertainty over everything. But when ...

Hilary Duff is teasing more new music after dropping her first new single in over a decade. Duff, 38, announced on Friday, November 21, that her latest full-length album, Luck … Or Something will ...

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 ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stray Kids has notched their second “double-million seller” of the year! Earlier this week, Stray Kids returned with their special album “DO IT” on November 21 at 2 p.m. KST. Less than six days later, ...

This post was updated Nov. 19 at 3:35 p.m. Summer Walker is closing a chapter of her career with another confessional album. The R&B singer-songwriter’s third LP, “Finally Over It,” released Nov. 14, ...