One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

The band injected this ’60s mod track with a heavy amount of attitude. This caustic energy would become a hallmark of the sub-genre, leaving the classic rock era behind for something befitting the ...

The overall sound is huge and the energy exuberant, with Petunia's band, at the time of the recording, coming off a years-long residency at the WISE Lounge, singing songs that had been workshopped and ...

The result is On the Moon, Men Without Hats’ latest album, whose sound is built on the band’s catchy electronic pop and ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Old Skin Wails of Ten Thousand Sludge, sludge, baby. Old Skin, the Fort Collins band that blares at the altar of resurrected ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - As someone who goes to concerts for a living, I often remind myself that the average music fan doesn’t get ...