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 ...

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 ...

2026 will bring new chips and further software improvements. But competition is heating up too. 2026 will bring new chips and further software improvements. But competition is heating up too. is a ...

When Angel Du$t swore to rock the fuck on forever, they meant it. The ragtag group of respected hardcore and punk figures are six albums deep and still packing hefty ...

And now we turn our attention to 2026 with Stereogum's annual preview of what we're excited to hear next year. This time, I've broken the list into sections to provide context around which inclusions ...

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 ...

With 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle found a way to make the zombie apocalypse moving through Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Ian Kelson.

Actor Shari Lynn, above center, was the director of music at La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls for 23 years. She twice took her choir on singing tours of Italy. Crazy Shirts transformed T-shirts from ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 3: Lorde performs in concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) It was a year of ...