It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

As voted on by our listeners and programmers, WNCW's Top 100 Albums of 2025! Click to see the full list.Click here to see ...

Although he doesn't write a lot of his own music, these four songs show Blake Shelton has talent as a songwriter.

The year 1974 was quite a big one for the singer-songwriter and folk musician alike, and a ton of songs released that year ...

Songs from the soundtrack to ‘Oh. What. Fun.’, new holiday albums by Mickey Guyton, Old Crow Medicine Show, Brad Paisley ...

Some of these you won’t find on streaming, so take this as an invitation to search the internet and your local record store.” ...

Includes Pulp, Suede, Robert Plant, Bon Iver, Big Thief, Wednesday, Geese, Little Simz, Paul Weller and more… but where did ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Less head-scratching selections include the upbeat retro-pop track “Ready for Christmas” by Tabitha Meeks, the funky “Merry Christmas Baby” by Short Stuff, a surf-rock instrumental version of “Winter ...

In the age of streaming, reissues are literally a volume business. Of 2025’s 10 best archival collections and anniversary ...

The first solo album in three years from the New York rapper (and his first release since his twin 2023 stunners, the Kenny Segal collab Maps, which landed on our 2023 year-end list, and Armand Hammer ...

Antidepressants IT was the year when those noisy Mancunian brothers brought the Britpop Nineties back to packed stadiums ...