The guitar icon reflects on the records that changed his life, including Steely Dan’s pioneering “yacht rock“ debut ...

Being nominated for a Grammy Award is an amazing accomplishment — especially when it happens more than once, as one University of Massachusetts Amherst professor knows. Ben Barnett, an adjunct faculty ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 25: In 1641, Rev. Jean de Brebeuf composed "Jesus, He is Born (The Huron Carol)," the song considered to be New France's first Christmas carol written in the Huron ...

To mark what would've been Sinéad O'Connor's 59th birthday, we're looking back at her last interview with Hot Press.

It’s been 40 years since Bob Dylan’s “Biograph” became the first CD box set to be released and there’s still gold to be mined ...

Brass/Trio,' an unusual two-sided statement from saxophonist Sonny Rollins, will join the Verve Vault series in early 2026.

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

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 ...

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 ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Pop critic Ann Powers shares a handful the albums on NPR Music's list of the best of the year, including the one album that nearly the entire team agreed on. What were your favorite albums this year?