In the mid-1970s, rock music ruled the airwaves. You couldn’t turn on the radio or walk into a department store without hearing a few major chords running through a buzzing amplifier. What a world, ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

It never ceases to amaze us: every time we leave town, someone inevitably asks, “Does Miami have a music scene beyond the big-name Latin artists topping the Billboard charts?” The answer is always yes ...

It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more ...

Full album sets are fairly common these days, especially if an album is celebrating an anniversary. Though can be assured Gojira will not be playing any of their albums front to back, and that ...

Nearly 50 years after its release, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours isn't just the best selling classic rock album of 2025, it's the 25th-best selling record of the year overall. Of course, the very top of the ...

Three rock albums made Billboard's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2025 and one of them actually cracked the Top 10. This particular list consisted of staff picks and there are 30 writers credited on ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

From Mavis Staples to the Kronos Quartet—these are our music critic’s favorite works from this year. The Lebanese Civil War. Corporate agri-capitalism. Tips for surviving a nasty divorce. Violence, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

Double Diamond albums were unthinkable when the RIAA launched its gold awards program in 1958. Only one album was certified gold that year (signifying $1 million in manufacturer’s dollar volume; the ...

Classic rock, to many listeners, peaked in the 1970s. That’s a notion that is certainly debatable, but one can’t deny that some of the best classic rock albums hit the shelves in the 1970s, ...