A truly glorious year for music. These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten.

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 ...

Within a forested limestone landscape of Papua New Guinea lives a shy, striking bird that’s new to science. This bird is also incredibly rare and may already be endangered, according to a recent study ...

A crane was stationed outside the Louvre Museum in Paris on Tuesday — but this time it wasn't being used by jewel thieves stealing some of the nation's historic treasures. Instead, the machine was ...

Christmas Eve for 2025 has arrived. Have you done all of your holiday shopping yet? If not, make sure you get to the store early, since many places have reduced hours for Dec. 24. The stock market ...

Elizabeth Hurley flooded Instagram with bikini photos in 2025, drawing plenty of fan reactions along the way. The actress, who runs her own swimwear brand, Elizabeth Hurley Beach, frequently models ...

PARIS (AP) — A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum — but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 3: Lorde performs in concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) It was a year of ...

A trek to Jomolhari Base Camp is more than a physical journey, it is a passage into one of Bhutan’s most significant biological and cultural landscapes. to Tashi paradise high locked content there, ...

Plus bonus appearances from a set of Scottish smallpipes and an extra violin. To Benedetti, combining violin and piano felt ...

Editor's Note: This is part of our Best of SC Music edition, which gets more than 100 venue owners, concert organizers, album producers and more music professionals across the state to vote on their ...