Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Taylor Swift recently spent a lot of time with her whole catalogue of music on the Eras Tour, and now that the nostalgic performances are over, it’s the perfect time to gauge exactly which of her ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

Since 1960, the Beatles—four fabulous lads from Liverpool, England—have remained the greatest rock and roll band in the history of music. How John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are back as Elphaba and Glinda for “Wicked: For Good,” Jon M. Chu’s latest film which adapts the second act of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s hit musical. Though ...

Here are all six Metallica songs co-written by Dave Mustaine, ranked worst to best. Mustaine played a crucial role in the early development of Metallica. Between 1982 and early 1983, the future ...

The Bear star Jeremy Allen White became Bruce Springsteen in the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere from playing guitar and singing his own vocals to wearing brown eye contacts to better ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...