From long-awaited projects to breakthrough releases, here are the albums that made 2025 another solid year in music.

In 1995, the Smashing Pumpkins were one of the biggest bands in the country. The Chicago alt-rock outfit caught fire with their 1991 debut, Gish, and broke into the mainstream with their 1993 ...

Radio X Classic Rock looks back at the year of Golden Brown, Abracadabra, Centrefold, Run To The Hills and Eye Of The Tiger.

The Phantom of the Opera,” Cameron Winter and Randolph Street Holiday Market are among the highlights in the week ahead.

Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish stopped at the Vocalo studios to discuss how their new album “Hi Top Fade” calls back to ...

When his family moved from West to East Oakland, Calif., young D’Wayne Wiggins had to make new friends amid a tsunami of ...

Boston metalcore icons Converge have announced their first non-collaborative album in nearly nine years. Love Is Not Enough arrives February 13 via Deathwish Inc. and Epitaph Records. Leading the LP ...

Kennedy Caughell (L) and Maya Drake in the touring production of Alicia Keys's Hell's Kitchen. Credit: Marc J. Franklin In Hell’s Kitchen, Alicia Keys (with an assist from book writer Kristoffer Diaz) ...

An iconic rock band is set to release two new songs nearly two decades after their last album. Guns N’ Roses announced a pair of singles, “Nothin’” and “Atlas,” will be released on Dec. 2. It will be ...

As we prepare to enter 2026, Okayplayer wraps up our 2025 with a list of the 25 songs that defined the year — a soundtrack of ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...