DETROIT, MI — No, it wasn’t just your imagination. The Temptations were centerstage at the Thursday Night Football halftime show as the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys squared off on Thursday, Dec. 4 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day (December 2) in 1964, Buck Owens was at the top of the country albums chart with Together Again. It was his second chart-topping album and spent six weeks at No. 1. The LP also featured ...

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 ...

The Temptations have made plenty of special appearances at sporting events during the Motown group’s 64 years together. But performing during halftime of the Detroit Lions-Dallas Cowboys game Thursday ...

The band’s name is a riff on the 1910 Fruitgum Company, a late-’60s bubblegum act that scored three Top Fives, none of which are as catchy or diverse as any of these 10 songs. While “sunshine pop” ...

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 ...