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Dust-to-Digital, the eclectic Atlanta music label, is partnering with the University of California, Santa Barbara on an ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

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 ...

"Lux", Rosalía's new album, is officially released on Friday. But some songs are already leaking onto social media. Alejandro Meléndez/NOTIMEX/dpa The new album by Spanish singer Rosalía has leaked ...

This is something special, something sacred. George Michael—who passed away in 2016 at the age of 53—is getting a posthumous music credit on Taylor Swift’s forthcoming 12th studio album The Life of a ...

Viewers are giving his outlook two thumbs way up. A man who was born without thumbs claims that he can accomplish any task despite his missing digits — and that he wouldn’t change a thing. Clips of ...

The billionaire pop star, 35, announced her 12th studio album and album art on fiance Travis Kelce's New Heights podcast. The show, which Kelce co-hosts with his brother, Jason Kelce, quite literally ...