Best friends since their teens, across their thirty-year career, Biffy Clyro have graduated from being a discordant alt-rock cult concern to platinum-plated UK festival headliners while retaining ...

Raisa K’s solo album is primitive and intimate, Saeko Killy adds a euphoric touch to her dimly lit sound and Bitchin Bajas get blissed out ...

The 2026 Grammy Awards revive the Best Album Cover category; we break down the nominees, including Bad Bunny, Djo, and Wet Leg.

Her go-to breakup song? “I know one. It’s a really good song, by this really cool artist, called Cat Burns. I don’t know if ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

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A federal judge dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, finding the prosecutor who brought the cases, former ...

Emily Blunt was feeling a bit queasy on the set of the biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine. Blunt, 42, revealed that one scene in particular filmed at a fair alongside costar Dwayne “The ...