Billboard chooses its top R&B albums of the year, featuring sets from SZA, Summer Walker, GIVEON and many more.

Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

NPR Music critics, editors and Tiny Desk producers each singled out one album they would recommend to anyone who came calling. The elite, no-skips albums of the year.

Fleetwood Mac’s shape-shifting legacy spans blues, pop and rock classics. Here’s how their eclectic albums stack up, from ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

This article was originally published on audiophix.com as 12 best country albums of 2025 that music fans can’t miss. The culture wars that have defined country music in recent years seemed somewhat ...

Jazz versions of holiday classics can bring up these feelings even with no singer, though perhaps start with Ella Fitzgerald’s classic album “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.” Other sweet as ...

Before Corey Taylor and before the nu metal takeover, Slipknot launched their career with a DIY release that put the Des ...

The Golden Globes have announced their nominees for Best Song in a Movie for 2025. Here is one critic's rundown from least to most deserving.

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 ...

Here are the 11 best progressive rock albums of 2025! Loudwire recently looked at the best prog metal albums of 2025, with artists both well established (Amorphis, Between the Buried and Me) and ...

If 1994 was among the greatest years in rock and roll history, then 1995 should undoubtedly take the mantle for rap music. The decade welcomed the emergence and canonizations of alt-metal, ambient, ...