Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. It has only been a little more than a year since Eric Clapton ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Rock band Deftones returned this summer with a new album titled ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

In 1984, between the releases of Flick Of The Switch and Fly On The Wall, the insatiable thirst in America for all things AC/DC-related saw the release of ’74 Jailbreak, an EP of vintage Bon Scott-era ...

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 and Daoud Tyler-Ameen to run through 12 dazzling albums that stuck with ...

In honor of Alan Jackson's 46th wedding anniversary to his wife, Denise, we found three songs to celebrate their love story.

Stevie Wonder has quite the illustrious resume that only the best artists could ever dream of. He was only 11 years old when he signed to Motown's Tamla record label, and by the age of 13, he had a No ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“‘Fight Song’ is literally about reclaiming your voice. Now it belongs to me again.” Photo: Nicholas Whitmill “‘Fight Song’ is literally about reclaiming your voice. Now it belongs to me again.” Photo ...

George Harrison began his post-Beatles era with a very big bang: All Things Must Pass arrived in the U.S. on Nov. 27, 1970, as a triple-album boasting more than 20 songs. Tucked inside were a couple ...