If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers ...

Are albums still a measure of musical greatness in 2025? Charts are clogged with hit compilations and vintage classics, while streaming platforms favour pick and mix playlists. And yet for the most ...

Our music team dipped into their deep well of knowledge (and listening experience) to pull out their top 10 albums of 2025.

Bad Bunny started the year off right with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, one of his best albums to date. Since then, there has been a wealth of exciting new music, from anxiously awaited comebacks like Bon ...

This year’s best music, our critic thinks, defied conventions of genre and doctrine, showing how hybrid and fluid the art has become. Chappel Roan; Tyler, the Creator; Willie Nelson. Unlike the rest ...

A crop of artists on the verge of what’s next are returning with new releases, and Taylor Swift is reuniting with some of her poppiest collaborators. By Elena Bergeron Caryn GanzOlivia HornJon Pareles ...

What are the 25 best rock albums of the last 25 years? It's hard to believe that a full quarter century has gone by since the calendar hit 2000, but here we are with a wealth of outstanding rock music ...

Rounding up 2025 was several major releases, with AFI releasing their 12th full-length, Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…, ...

From Arm's Length to Algernon Cadwallader to Drain to Pool Kids to End It to First Day Back, here are the 50 best punk albums ...

Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of my life ...

Trends change, but I’ve never in my lifetime seen the thirst for punk music die. It shows up in surprising ways, like when Olivia Rodrigo gets arenas full of impressionable kids singing along to punk ...

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