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So this is the future? Judging by mainstream music in 2025, humankind is not in a particularly creative place. The year’s main storylines included the rise of AI slop and cartoon K-pop. A number of ...

One of 2025’s most stunning records arrived without fanfare last May. QUIET, the latest full-length album from Munich-based, German-American singer-songwriter Caro Kelley, is a soul-pop masterwork ...

Three rock albums made Billboard's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2025 and one of them actually cracked the Top 10. This particular list consisted of staff picks and there are 30 writers credited on ...

From Mavis Staples to the Kronos Quartet—these are our music critic’s favorite works from this year. The Lebanese Civil War. Corporate agri-capitalism. Tips for surviving a nasty divorce. Violence, ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

It seems abundantly obvious to me that everyone who believes in free expression, whatever side of various political equations they may be on, should be concerned about what YouTube just did to me. If ...

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 ...

While Heathcliff’s race and ethnicity is kept ambiguous in the novel, at one point, another character refers to him as “a little Lascar,” which means a sailor from Southeast Asia, and in a later part ...

In other words, 2025 had plenty of peaks and valleys. In our list of the year’s top albums, we try to capture these trends and tell the story of a music scene that is fractured, matching a cultural ...