Although Kendrick Lamar and SZA walked away with the 2026 Grammy for Record of the Year for their song “luther”—which sampled ...

Featuring: Arctic Monkeys, Kim Gordon, Kneecap, RIP Magic, Buck Meek, The Cribs, Jessie Ware, Whitelands, Plantoid, and more of January's best stuff ...

With thousands of metal songs released in 2025, here's a ranking of the 13 best. Just trying to keep up with the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of new tracks dropping each week is a gauntlet. We all have ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. De Los recently did a team huddle to determine our personal list of best albums, as well as our favorite songs ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

We say something like this every year, but now more than ever, a hit song is more than just a song. They’re always the soundtrack for years or moments in our lives, but now they’re also the soundtrack ...