Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of my life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first version of this list came out in 2023. Opinions have changed and even more great debuts have come out since. Records ...

This is Part 2 of Under the Radar’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 list. It includes #51-100, plus honorable mentions. Check out Part 1, featuring #1-50, here. In an already unusually great year for black ...

Anthony Fantano gives his opinion on Apple Music’s Top 100 Albums list, critiquing selections, omissions, and placement ...

Hip-Hop has spoiled us. In the 50 years since a group of kids decided to throw a party in the Bronx, the genre has grown and blossomed in ways Kool Herc couldn’t have imagined. Hip-hop left New York ...

Earlier this year, Apple Music published a viral — and controversial — list of its 100 best albums, as curated by a survey of editors from across the spectrum of music critics and journalists. While ...

Looking back on 2025, the general consensus seems to be that it was a helluva year—both globally and closer to home. Fires in Los Angeles, wars in Gaza and Ukraine, ICE raids, and the daily barrage of ...

Debut albums have been essential topics of discussion since Sun Records put out Elvis Presley back in 1956. Since then, some of the most cornerstone works in music occurred on debuts—be it The Doors, ...