The rankings have been split into new categories, with the best-selling pedals that launched in 2025 earning their own list, ...

Another great year of music – just as they all are! Always fun to see trends shift and change over time. The big theme this ...

From an unexpected and addicting country debut to the buzzy second act of an established pop star, these are some of our ...

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

But in assembling the list of my favorite albums from 2025, what initially surfaced was a roundup of nine recordings by women artists. Robert Plant’s psychedelic folk gem “Saving Grace” was the only ...

A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi power-pop project (Sharp Pins) and more.