In terms of The Voice winners specifically, aside from Pope, who's still making music and touring, some of the biggest ...

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 ...

Melanie Sykes has revealed she is in 'so much pain' after being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, which has left her 'two-thirds bald'. The TV star, 55, revealed in a clip shared to Instagram on ...

Music is a powerful medium, man. The right chords can get you to feel something. The right rhythm can move you. The right vocal flourish or lyrics can push you to better yourself. We as humans are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jade Thirlwall sent her fans wild with excitement on Thursday, as she announced the deluxe edition of her debut album, That's Showbiz Baby! The Encore. The former Little Mix star, 32, took to her ...

Two albums placed back-to-back on this list of the 50 greatest country covers epitomize how important album art was and is. What Are the Greatest Country Album Covers of All Time? At No. 20, find ...

As classic rock finds new ways to expand in the 21st century, the artists whose careers stretch back half a century or more continue to grow, too. As the list below of the Top 20 Rock Albums of 2025 ...

If there's one question that professional music lovers hear most often, it's some variation on: "Heard any good albums lately?" We always have, of course, but when it came time to highlight the cream ...

Maria Martinez is a Reuters correspondent in Berlin covering German economics and the ministry of finance. Maria previously worked at Dow Jones Newswires in Barcelona covering European economics and ...