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 ...

From Lady Gaga and Geese to Lily Allen and Rosalía, these are the albums our staff believes every music lover should hear.

The first solo album in three years from the New York rapper (and his first release since his twin 2023 stunners, the Kenny Segal collab Maps, which landed on our 2023 year-end list, and Armand Hammer ...

From Bad Bunny to Rosalía, Metacritic's top 10 albums of 2025 celebrate bold risks and career-defining releases.

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage talked about her new foray into R&B, 'This One Is Personal,' Afrobeats and the impact of ...

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

It’s been 40 years since Bob Dylan’s “Biograph” became the first CD box set to be released and there’s still gold to be mined ...

Our 2025 year-end gift to you is music discovery! Explore and enjoy these lists of favorite albums from the past year, courtesy of our KCBX DJs. You can explore these albums at our KCBX Spotify page ...

It's my favorite holiday film, which involves scant snow, gambling, Las Vegas, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

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 ...