A) the Sonic Youth co-founder has launched a Substack, and B) his first post is a list of the “350 Best Records of 2025.” ...

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone reading this has their holiday preparation in line and is gearing up for a lovely, ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

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 ...

War. Peace. War. A moon landing. An assassination. Stranger Things. Ozzy’s farewell. 100 men vs. a gorilla. Coldplay’s kiss cam. Six-seven. Labubus. A jeans ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...

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 ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

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 ...

After suddenly reemerging in January with his first new song in 13 years, venerable Orlando post-pop artist Sean Moore is just about to make his full, and full-length, return this weekend. On Sept. 19 ...

"But now I'm so focused on it happening. I don't know how to feel about it. I was super excited for the EP to come out, I was super ready for that." Moore said when Sleep Theory signed with Epitaph ...