The Zydeco Legacy of Clifton Chenier is finally preserved in a new set of digital releases made possible by Smithsonian Folkways.

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska Live’ concert film, featured on his ‘Nebraska ’82’ box set, is now available as a standalone digital video.

Writer and filmmaker Andrew Bennett is driving that point home by offering some rare recordings from the band’s rehearsals at their 5150 studio. They were recorded from November 2006 through January ...

One-hit wonder Toni Basil might have topped the charts for the first time in 1982, but she was in the industry for decades ...

My favorite albums of 2025 weren’t exactly magic tricks, but you had to listen to them closely to keep from getting head-faked. A country music traditionalist was the freshest in his field. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. From Andrea Echeverri’s radiant 2005 solo debut, to the second effort by the genre-bending Spinettango in May of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has selected its 10 best albums of the year, presented in no particular order and with a legend describing who might particularly enjoy them, in the vein of our ...

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 ...