One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, ...

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 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 ...

St. Louis Blues forward Alexey Toropchenko is out week-to-week after suffering burns to his legs in a home accident. Toropchenko is the third recent NHL player to be sidelined by an off-ice injury, ...

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 Rhode Island-based band Roomful of Blues has released a new album, "Steppin' Out." For the first time in its nearly 60-year history, the band features a female lead vocalist, D.D. Bastos. Band ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

Steve Earle joins up with The Waterboys for a limited run of dates celebrating the music of the band’s Fisherman’s Blues era. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to GlasgowWorld, you get 70% ...

When one thinks back on the most iconic albums from the 1970s, they likely think of albums by the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, and so on. Now, all of the albums created by those ...

This post was updated Nov. 19 at 3:35 p.m. Summer Walker is closing a chapter of her career with another confessional album. The R&B singer-songwriter’s third LP, “Finally Over It,” released Nov. 14, ...

Slash's grandma had the blues and rock 'n' roll is better for it. The famed Guns 'N Roses guitarist, who just dropped the blues album “Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival” on Nov. 7, was rocking and ...