My 2025 10-best list is heavy on storytelling songwriters of all stripes, from country to rock to hip-hop to dance-pop. The ...

Singers who transformed roles, young players who smited hearts, a secret trio, along with a little well-timed thunder made ...

Featuring AI slop, streamer nonsense, lumpenproletariat, the 6 7 kid, a miniature horse, space travel, lyric-selecting slime mold, niche beefs, kiss cams, accidental eugenics, and more ...

If you’re still in search of the spirit of the season or haven’t made a dent on your Christmas shopping list, well, time’s a ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

Singers Bijoux and Stephanie Smittle, the Episcopal Collegiate School Steelpan Ensemble and a 130-voice choir comprising ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

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 ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

It was heard for the first time in the North of England last night in a concert by four voices of the Marian Consort and a Manchester Collective string quartet (the premiere was at the Wigmore Hall ...