EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

These 2025 rap and R&B videos use direction and design to elevate the music. Directors like Karena Evans and Brendan O’Connor bring cinematic techniques to the genre. The list highlights how artists ...

Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic ...

Our staff's favorite Spanish-language tracks from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. As we close the chapter on 2025, one fact is clear: Latin music continues to grow bigger, bolder and more ...

Jennifer Reid sang workers’ songs, Malmin plumbed gnarly Norwegian hinterlands and Quinie rode across Argyll on a horse The 50 best albums of 2025 More on the best culture of 2025 Inspired by Talk ...

What a year for music — great songs came out of anywhere, in every style and every genre. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2025, though some gems will appear over on my albums list, to avoid ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Many automakers have tried to build an anti-Tesla, but all have failed. Despite Tesla's various controversies, and the billions spent by rival automakers on developing EVs, Tesla still commands about ...

There might not have been an Eras Tour to break billion-dollar records, but 2025 still produced stadium spectacles, innovative arena productions and impressive club performances from a slew of ...