Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. After 2024 saw the likes of RM, Rosé, NewJeans, ATEEZ, aespa, ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Podcasting has suffered a series of blows over the past few years: industry layoffs, the rise of AI-produced slop, and, perhaps most existentially, a growing focus on video platforms. But 2025 ...

The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

It's that time of year, when the fictionalized retelling of the von Trapp family and in particular, Maria von Trapp, escape from Austria as it is annexed by Nazis Germany, comes to prime time. This ...

Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Of everything I saw on TV in 2025, the one show I thought was the very best, and has haunted me ever since, was the four-part Netflix drama Adolescence. It's the story of a young teen accused of ...

Fire and Ash,' Zoe Saldaña has become the highest-grossing actor of all time, overtaking Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L.