Lady Gaga, Olivia Dean and Lily Allen are responsible for some of the past year's most talked-about new releases.

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

The 21st century has seen the release of some amazing albums, including David Bowie's Blackstar, Robyn's Body Talk, and ...

Matthew and Gunnar are glass-half-full guys. Positivity runs through the conversation and the book. So Matthew went backstage ...

The 33-year-old Catalan musician Rosalía was a phenomenon even before the release of “Lux”, said Julyssa Lopez in Rolling ...

The new film "Song Sung Blue" pays homage to the catalog of Neil Diamond, and it is one worth celebrating. We rank his 10 ...

Houston is full of singers, bands and performers whose work is just as good or better than whatever topped your Spotify ...

Another round-up of the music from 2025. Country music in 2025 was a continuation of what we saw in 2024… better quality from the mainstream, artists like Zach Top, Parker McCollum, Chase Rice, Jake ...

The first song Lukas Nelson ever composed, “You Were It,” closes his new Grammy-nominated solo album, “American Romance.” He was 11 years old and living on Maui at the time. “I wrote it here on a ...

Donna Summer, the undisputed Queen of Disco, shocked the music world with her hidden talent for crafting timeless hits. Her ...