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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino reportedly blindsided his own top officials when he hastily created a “Peace Prize” soon after President Donald Trump lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize he’s long sought. The ...

Here's the main thing you need to know about our ranked list of the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums: They're all damn good. Are you surprised? History is littered with platinum ...

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 ...

Prada shocks the entire fashion world with a Versace takeover with a hefty price tag, which is big enough to fund a whole space mission that landed on Gianni’s birth anniversary. (Image Credits: ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino was front and center at the highly anticipated World Cup draw event in Washington, D.C., on Friday afternoon. Infantino took the stage at the Kennedy Center for the ...

President Trump with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who presented him with the FIFA Peace Prize on Dec. 5,. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP) President Trump on Friday became the first recipient of the FIFA ...

If 1994 was among the greatest years in rock and roll history, then 1995 should undoubtedly take the mantle for rap music. The decade welcomed the emergence and canonizations of alt-metal, ambient, ...

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 ...