While 2024 saw one particular electric green-hued album dominate the cultural zeitgeist since its mid-summer release, 2025 was more of a collective effort. This year’s most influential albums ...

Best friends since their teens, across their thirty-year career, Biffy Clyro have graduated from being a discordant alt-rock cult concern to platinum-plated UK festival headliners while retaining ...

Some albums announce themselves with a roar. Others arrive quietly, kind of casually strolling into your life when you weren’t looking. Returning to Myself did the latter. Brandi Carlile’s most recent ...

Harry Boulton, 17, was diagnosed with chronic fatigue in January 2024, following a viral infection. He has released an album ...

The software seamlessly downloads full albums from any YouTube Music playlist in the highest available MP3 format. Simply copy and paste the artist link or the album linnk from YouTube Music into YTAD ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

It seems abundantly obvious to me that everyone who believes in free expression, whatever side of various political equations they may be on, should be concerned about what YouTube just did to me. If ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's Christmas Eve and the children have made secret Santa presents to give to the adults.