Despite huge collaborations, top-selling albums and sellout tours, the leading stars of the Dominican genre still feel like ...

Take control of the protagonist Romeo Stargazer in this third person single-player action adventure, split into various chapters. His story is both unpredictable and littered with intense battles, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

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 ...

Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Suda51 wants Romeo is a Dead Man on Switch 2, but it all comes down to how the engine performs on Nintendo's new console. After an ESRB rating was given last month, at a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. From Andrea Echeverri’s radiant 2005 solo debut, to the second effort by the genre-bending Spinettango in May of ...

We’ve got melancholy brunettes, sad women, West End girls, man’s best friends. These albums represent all different styles and beats and genres — but this is the music that kept us moving forward all ...

It could be a scene from a movie: A charismatic chef ditches his gourmet bistro and starts cooking burgers out of a kitschy takeout window. In this case, the chef happens to be Alexis Trolf, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's the main thing you need to know about our ranked list of the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums: They're all damn good. Are you surprised? History is littered with platinum ...