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 ...

For many years, Toronto's melodic hardcore crushers Mil-Spec have been one of the most consistently kickass bands on the hardcore underground. They always bring the big, climactic mosh moments, but ...

This year in country music was all about artists discovering ways to innovate old forms and traditions. In some cases, like Eric Church’s Evangeline vs. the Machine and Carter Faith’s stunning debut ...

Yes, we define indie rock pretty broadly for this list. Four decades after bands like the Replacements, the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, and the Meat Puppets got this scene rolling, indie rock is more a ...

In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

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 ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

With Apple Music's Replay and Spotify's Wrapped recaps out, what better time is there to find new music to add to your rotation? Cue: the best non-English albums of 2025. In case you've been living ...

The breakout pop album of 2025. Addison Rae, a former TikTok star, pays tribute to musical forebears including Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey, but has a dreamy style all her own. “Always Been”. By ...

Any objective rap fan of a certain age approaches legacy albums like Nas and DJ Premier’s Light-Years with learned skepticism. For 30-odd years, rap was exclusively a young person’s game, defined by ...

Fresh entries into the tradition include releases by Luke Bryan, Tyra Banks and Old Crow Medicine Show. By Jon Caramanica Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You ...