Welcome to music in 2025. KATSEYE has been crowned TikTok’s Global Artist of the Year 2025, cementing their status as the biggest band on the platform and one of the most influential pop acts in the ...

NICOSIA - A court in Cyprus on Friday sentenced an Azeri man to 6-1/2 years in jail on charges of conspiracy, his lawyer said, after prosecutors earlier dropped charges he planned terrorist attacks ...

“8 Lights” features a duduk, a double-reed woodwind instrument from Armenia. The group decided to use when they met a ...

His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.

One hundred thirty-four years ago today, a hugely influential singer, multi-instrumentalist, and song collector was born in ...

Where earlier heavy metal could be gloomy and occult, Sodom raised the temperature even more with gory, blasphemous lyrics, ...

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There are countless gift options for the music lover in your life, whether it’s a high-end speaker, a swanky vinyl storage solution or some quality guitar picks. Variety has curated this list of the ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

All but one of Apple Music’s Top 10 most-streamed songs of 2025 weren’t even released this year—a trend that will continue when bigger services Spotify and Billboard release their year-end lists—a ...

From another Paul Thomas Anderson masterpiece to the thrill of seeing Timothée Chalamet's potential fulfilled, the best ...