Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at Assembly, Cate Le Bon at Basilica, a sound bath in Newburgh, a doc that puts you in the pit of a ...

It was a fantastic year for new music, with some truly wild, innovative and ambitious albums on offer. These were 10 of the ...

Overall, musicians made their strongest statements outside the recording studio, reflecting the growing mass opposition ...

This feature presents short reviews of standout releases from 2025, each personally selected by members of the OTOTOY ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

All the players who rocked our world, in the year of Oasis reunions, Black Sabbath farewells, and guitarists keeping their shoulder to the evolutionary wheel of guitar playing ...

Paul McCartney’s holiday staple gets more maligned every year, but not by our editor. Their joy cannot be tainted by your contrarian values.

I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

Working from home by day, gaming and streaming by night? Defeating Wi-Fi dead zones is more important than ever. A mesh network system can help, and these are the best we've tested. I’ve been working ...

Update December 30, 2025: Google is adding AI-enhanced audio and RCS web messaging to Google Fi Wireless. RCS web messaging should have been there the whole time, but it’s good to see it finally make ...

These days, your wireless router is not just your lifeline to the internet, but also to your job. We've hand-tested the top routers so you can find the right fit to build a snappy home Wi-Fi network.