Recloose-ive The clock has barely passed 9am in his particular corner of the United States, but Matthew Chicoine is notably bright and breezy. “The creativity has really been flowing sinc ...

BTS is returning from a multi-year hiatus with a new album followed by a world tour, according to Reuters. “March 20 Comeback Confirmed,” the K-pop group’s agency Big Hit Music said in a post Thursday ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Happy New Year! Having put 2025 to bed (check out our lists here) we’re anxious to see what 2026 brings us. Music-wise, at least. We put together this list of 94 albums that have already been ...

A truly glorious year for music. These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten.

BTS fans are dreaming of spring, and not just because of the current winter weather. The turning of the new year brought an announcement to Korean media that the group will be releasing a new album on ...

And now we turn our attention to 2026 with Stereogum's annual preview of what we're excited to hear next year. This time, I've broken the list into sections to provide context around which inclusions ...

Every new year brings the same question for music fans: what’s next? After a year that brought about some amazing albums, it reminded listeners that great art still rises to the top, even within an ...

Here are the 11 best thrash albums of 2025. Thrash has not historically been known for its willingness to reinvent the wheel — when James Hetfield famously sang "full speed or nothing" on Metallica's ...

The band's last album, the anthology 'Proof,' dropped in June 2022 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, ...

From an unexpected and addicting country debut to the buzzy second act of an established pop star, these are some of our favorite albums of 2025. By Ethan Millman, Nicole Fell Too often in covering ...

Festivals from over 30 countries participated in the awards, now in its 15th year, with 300,000 votes cast by the public.