Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

Part 2 of our annual countdown of the top 50 local songs of 2025, featuring a range of artists from music legends to high ...

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

Among the squad of friends, family, Hall of Fame athletes and erstwhile colleagues who contribute to “Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott,” a couple of consistent points get made. One, the subject ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Before Stuart Scott, the exclamation “Boo-yah” was used to express joy. When the late ESPN anchor made it one of ...

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 ...

Grade/Ranking: Among the Top 40 out of 134 installments to date, which I’d give a B+ on my 30 for 30 grading curve. Review: From time to time, 30 for 30 has been unafraid to turn its focus away from ...

The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post. By Nicholas Kulish and Theodore ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said working Americans would get "very large refunds" next year amounting to about $1,000 to $2,000 per household. He said the refunds would come as a result of tax ...

Years after his death, Stuart Scott continues to be one of the most beloved figures to grace ESPN. The network’s new 30 for 30 documentary, Boo-Yah: A Stuart Scott Portrait, premiering Wednesday, ...