NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has selected its 10 best albums of the year, presented in no particular order and with a legend describing who might particularly enjoy them, in the vein of our ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

We love those classic Christmas recordings. And we cherish the chance to hear Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, Darlene Love and other greats sing these standards each ...

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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 ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

On December 6, 1999, just 25 days before the new millennium, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against file-sharing platform Napster for copyright infringement. Now, 25 ...

Americans have been told to prioritize low-fat dairy for decades, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called that recommendation into question. By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Since the 1980s, federal health ...

From its first use by the likes of the Byrds and the Beatles in the 1960s, the synthesizer has captured the public’s imagination. Electronic instruments first became possible in the early 20th century ...

It's Friday, it's mid-November, and the weekly deluge of new albums felt like it was finally starting to slow down as we approach the holidays — until we looked at our Nov. 14 list of LPs, EPs, ...

This post was updated Nov. 19 at 3:35 p.m. Summer Walker is closing a chapter of her career with another confessional album. The R&B singer-songwriter’s third LP, “Finally Over It,” released Nov. 14, ...