Jessie J may have just dropped a new album but she’s eyeing up a potential career change in 2026. Despite this year being ...

Music manager Michael Lippman, who helped guide the careers of Matchbox Twenty, George Michael, and Bernie Taupin, has died ...

Nominally a rap album, “Jonatan” rarely behaves like one. What follows instead is a project that treats rap as a loose ...

Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated ...

The Recording Academy has announced the recipients of its 2026 Special Merit Awards. Carlos Santana, Chaka Khan, Cher, Fela ...

Carlos Santana didn’t always worry too much about wooing the pop charts. He and his band Santana delivered a few hit singles here and there, but usually when the audience met them at their ...

Carlos Santana has announced U.S. dates for his Oneness Tour 2026, including a stop at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. The ...

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 ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best albums, including Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Rosalía, Bad Bunny, Clipse, Brandi Carlile, ...

From Mavis Staples to the Kronos Quartet—these are our music critic’s favorite works from this year. The Lebanese Civil War. Corporate agri-capitalism. Tips for surviving a nasty divorce. Violence, ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

It's Friday, and that means we've reached our final 2025 episode of New Music Friday. While most of the music internet has moved on to looking backward (including the latest episode of All Songs ...