The guitar icon reflects on the records that changed his life, including Steely Dan’s pioneering “yacht rock“ debut ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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September 16, 2025 — Writer and analyst Dan Wang discusses his new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton, August 2025), with Julian Gewirtz, a former senior official in ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

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 ...

Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people across the region and displaced millions in South and Southeast Asia. Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people ...

Two albums placed back-to-back on this list of the 50 greatest country covers epitomize how important album art was and is. What Are the Greatest Country Album Covers of All Time? At No. 20, find ...

As classic rock finds new ways to expand in the 21st century, the artists whose careers stretch back half a century or more continue to grow, too. As the list below of the Top 20 Rock Albums of 2025 ...

Dan Wolken is an award-winning national columnist focused on college sports and a variety of other topics. He's covered six Olympic Games, the NBA, tennis, golf and horse racing. Wolken's prior stops ...