"Pop bangers to psychedelically gorgeous sounds," Elmo Kirkwood shares the music that revved him up this past year.

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Rolling Stone staffers pick their favorite albums of 2025, from Bad Bunny to Clipse to Rosalia to Taylor Swift to Wednesday to Geese to Lady Gaga ...

Including Britpop classics, punk rarities, a different side of Nick Drake, an over-the-top Big '80s masterpiece, '90s ambient ...

One of the best-known pop groups of the ’60s, with hits like “This Girl Is a Woman Now,” “Over You,” and “Young Girl,” Gary ...

New York-based trio Scotch Mist has been carving out its own lane in the city’s indie scene, refusing to be boxed in by genre ...

From soul and pop to indie, rock, and beyond, this list of 2026 Artists on the radar has something for every music lover.

This year's best albums include Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," Lily Allen's "West End Girl," and Addison Rae's ...

Popular music has become progressively darker, more stressed, and linguistically simpler over the past 50 years, tracking alongside America’s growing mental health crisis, according to research that ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

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 ...

Taylor Swift released an album so bad we won’t even talk about it. FKA twigs fucked around with EUSEXUA and found out… it got even better? Rosalía let her hair down from the Tower of Babel. Addison ...