The 33-year-old Grammy winner got two diamond studs on the nape of her neck and two diamond studs on her lower back ...

Bjork is working on her first new album since 2022. The 60-year-old Icelandic musician hasn't released a studio album since Fossora almost four years ago, but it appears a fresh collection of tunes ...

Some of the year’s best songs were pop chart-toppers, instant classics that ruled the radio and the clubs. Others come out of ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

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 ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

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 ...

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We love those classic Christmas recordings. And we cherish the chance to hear Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, Darlene Love and other greats sing these standards each ...

The Canadian producer Dan Snaith is best known for flipping between two electronic music aliases, Caribou and Daphni. The latter is generally the more dancefloor focused of the two; the last Daphni ...

On December 6, 1999, just 25 days before the new millennium, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against file-sharing platform Napster for copyright infringement. Now, 25 ...

Like our picks and want more? Enjoy bonus recommendations accompanying each entry. Call her Miss Paramore if you must, but this year, it’s all about Hayley Williams. The fierce frontwoman has detoured ...