Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in November. If you’re ...

Another thing happened in 1975: Classic rock found its voice by the decade's midpoint, as you'll see in the list below of the Top 30 Albums of 1975. Parameters were set, signposts were marked and the ...

"The album is god, period." That's Jack Antonoff on the And The Writer Is... podcast earlier this month. "There's no brilliant artist that's existed for a real period of time and changed things and ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

We’re halfway through 2024 and just posted a list of our 40 favorite albums of 2024 so far, which includes multiple genres of music, including metal. For even more metal, we’ve now put together a list ...

I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this. I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the ...

Beyoncé could bow out of music today, and she’ll have released enough music to explore for decades to come. But that’s not a worry — with the release tonight of “Cowboy Carter,” she’s onto the second ...

Taylor Swift is one of the most influential singers and songwriters of her era. Born in 1989, she released her first album in 2006 and toured with country acts, then gradually shifted to pop music.

Wayne Shorter, one of a few musical sages who left our earthly plane this year, had a standard take on the subject of finality. "To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything," Shorter, the ...

Our 21st Best Albums of the Year list, 2023 was one for the books. Recency bias out the window, this might very well have been the best year of music since 2016. From instant classics by breakout acts ...

Over the last handful of weeks, we’ve been positively debut album-pilled here at Paste. From our 21st century list to our recurring Saturday series of decades from the 1960s through the 1990s, we’ve ...