A truly glorious year for music. These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten.

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Ayyoun is a staff writer who loves all things gaming and tech. His journey into the realm of gaming began with a PlayStation 1 but he chose PC as his platform of choice. With over 6 years of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In honor of her 56th birthday, Lauren Sánchez Bezos jetted off to Aspen, Colorado this past weekend for a ...

Whatever you think of Minnesota’s reputation as a progressive state politically, you should be happy to note it deserves that distinction musically, too. Many of the best recordings born here in 2025 ...

Take a walk down memory lane — and try to quell your disbelief — with the following list of 40 classic rock and metal albums turning 40 in 2026. Nineteen eighty-six was a great time to be an ...

The Agnes Varda of deep listening returns with another piece of intimate audio vérité, a two-CD headphone collage made from recordings of her mother's final four months. Here, Rossetto's mom tells ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The party isn’t over yet for Lauren Sánchez Bezos. Since celebrating her 56th birthday on December 19, ...

Bandcamp had become an issue and I had requested Flatiron Recordings to disable the account associated with my records before the release day of my New record on December 19, 2025. I am not in control ...

It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more ...