From Bad Bunny to Rosalía, Metacritic's top 10 albums of 2025 celebrate bold risks and career-defining releases.

Today in Music History for Dec. 21: In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered ...

Paring a year’s worth of standout music releases down to a neat Top 10 turned out to be a fool’s errand, so this year’s list expands to a Baker’s Dozen—thirteen new and reissue albums that genuinely ...

’Tis the season to celebrate the legacy of John Lennon and Yoko Ono ’s “ Happy Xmas (War Is Over) .” With Christmas just days away, Sean Ono Lennon appeared on network TV to discuss “WAR IS OVER!,” ...

Captain Beefheart, the eclectic rock pioneer, carved a unique musical path alongside friend Frank Zappa, blending blues with ...

At last count, Neil Young has released at least 25 albums and seven box sets since 2000. His newest set, “Official Release ...

This holiday season is a treat for music fans, with reissues from icons like the Rolling Stones and Neil Young bringing hidden tracks and expanded stories back into the spotlight.

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 and Daoud Tyler-Ameen to run through 12 dazzling albums that stuck with ...

It hit like a lightning bolt: the moment jazz met rock, the musical world changed forever. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, a bold new sound emerged – raw, electrified, rhythmically ferocious and ...

His steady rather than spectacular solo career incorporated guitar synths and drum machines in the 80s, alongside the guitar ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

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 ...