Of course it was the King. Zach Top seems to be everywhere these days. Riding the highs of his debut album last year and his highly-successful sophomore effort this year, Ain't In It For My Health, ...

What were the best concerts of 2025 in New Orleans? Music writer Keith Spera looks back at Billie Eilish, Burna Boy, Lyle ...

Strange folk, lost pop, disco oddities and, um, Dido – here are the forgotten tracks that became this year’s most replayed revelations ...

Here is the third part of our playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland. It marks eleventh year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Includes David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Bruce Springsteen, Brigitte Fontaine, Bill Evans and more… but in ...

Willie Nelson has spent more than seven decades making music, but the country legend recently revealed there's one thing that ...

This year, the annual, eight-day festival comes to an end on Monday. Sandler first performed the song on SNL 30 years ago.

An ancient string instrument evolved into the flat-top acoustic guitar—an essential element in American folk, blues and rock.

Standout acts from our staff picks include Chappell Roan, My Chemical Romance, Charli XCX, Turnstile, Clairo, El Alfa and ...

Antidepressants IT was the year when those noisy Mancunian brothers brought the Britpop Nineties back to packed stadiums ...

The Oakland-based experimental artist Chrystia Cabral, a.k.a. SPELLLING, resists genre categorization in a way that allows ...

Mumford & Sons return with "Prizefighter," a vulnerable folk anthem written with Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner. Released December 11, 2025.