Staring off wistfully into the middle distance, thinking, “Man, the mid-2010s were a time .” Whether or not you believe it ...

Locations for Santa photos include Bass Pro Shop, Cabela's, Macy's, and Nordstrom. Pet-friendly options for Santa pictures are available at stores like Petco and PetSmart. JCPenney Portraits also ...

Christmas Eve is the busiest night of the year for Santa, and he appreciates the treats children leave for him. But the idea that Santa should get milk and cookies is mostly limited to the United ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

Love & Ponystep is a love letter to those spaces from Zelda Trixie Lulamoon, a Portland producer with the astonishing ability to crank out consistently interesting hour-and-a-half-plus albums on a ...

There are many throughlines in the list you’re about to scroll through: triumphant comebacks, showstopping debuts, thrill-seeking left-turns and emotional documents of grief and pain. But what stays ...

War. Peace. War. A moon landing. An assassination. Stranger Things. Ozzy’s farewell. 100 men vs. a gorilla. Coldplay’s kiss cam. Six-seven. Labubus. A jeans ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...