My favorite albums of 2025 weren’t exactly magic tricks, but you had to listen to them closely to keep from getting head-faked. A country music traditionalist was the freshest in his field. A ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's the main thing you need to know about our ranked list of the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums: They're all damn good. Are you surprised? History is littered with platinum ...

A posthumous album from neo-soul pioneer D’Angelo is in the works, confirmed by his collaborator Questlove Questlove described the unreleased music as having “the sound of yesterday but for the future ...

The popular ‘80s band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, OMD for short, may hail from Meols, Merseyside, England, but they have strong ties to Los Angeles. So much so that the Los Angeles City Council ...

In an ’80s pop landscape full of enormous talents and outrageous fashions, Cyndi Lauper still managed to stand out with one of the loudest voices and biggest personalities on MTV. The Queens native ...

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KeiyaA’s second studio album is named after the law of elasticity, which states that the extension of a spring is directly proportional to the load applied to it. The Chicago-born, New York–based ...

The Album of the Year award at the Grammys just might stand out as the most prestigious of the bunch. Perhaps that’s why people get so vocal with their objections. Especially when they think a ...