Concept albums are exactly what they say on the tin, a collection of songs strung together through a theme or narrative that ...

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Tom Service hosts a Christmas party! Whether you're wrapping presents, hitting the shops or getting ahead with the sprouts, Tom has the best classical playlist and the biggest stars to start your ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

There is still a scattering of ‘epics’ and ‘happy days’ but this Christmas, a newer, altogether calmer Jamie has entered his elder statesman era – and he’s all the better for it I last watched Jamie ...

Oliver will start with a Jamie's Italian in London's Leicester Square next spring in partnership with Brava Hospitality Group, which runs Prezzo, another chain of Italian restaurants. Jamie Oliver is ...

There are many throughlines in the list you’re about to scroll through: triumphant comebacks, showstopping debuts, thrill-seeking left-turns and emotional documents of grief and pain. But what stays ...

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 ...

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 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 banking giant’s C.E.O. said he wanted to keep lines of communication open with the mayor-elect of New York. By Lauren Hirsch Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, called Mayor-elect ...

Alden Global Capital or Hearst? Pick one. Oh, Hearst, definitely. I think that Robert Decherd is really to be applauded for making the choice that he made, and he did it in the interest of the ...