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 ...

WayV, Chinese subgroup of NCT, talk about their new special winter album, '白色定格 (Eternal White)," what winter means to them, ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the last song to become a holiday standard, arrived in 1994 — and didn’t ...

Singer Michael Sweet talks with Rick Damigella about the Christian metal band’s first full length album of Christmas music.

What Happened to the Streets? is 21 Savage's follow-up to 2024's American Dream, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On December 6, 1999, just 25 days before the new millennium, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against file-sharing platform Napster for copyright infringement. Now, 25 ...