De Los, the L.A. Times' Latin culture wing, lists its favorite albums by Latino artists in 2025, including albums by Bad ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

Neo-Soul singer D’Angelo died on Oct. 14. His death was confirmed by his former manager Kedar Massenberg and other sources ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

As a long and eventful 2025 draws to a close, NME remembers the influential and beloved musicians who left us this year ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world of music has given us many great female singers over the years. No matter whether you are a fan of rock, jazz, soul ...

Back in July, we asked you to name the best albums of 2025 so far. In the months that followed, some of the answers have, of course, shifted. With the end of the year imminent, we called upon readers ...

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 ...

Tis the season to put on some brand-new holiday music. The best way to get festive is to sing along to Christmas classics new and old. But don’t know what to press play on?

At the end of the 20th century, hip-hop was booming, but the mood was dour. Two of the greatest rappers of all time—2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.—had recently been violently killed. Artists were ...