Zach Bryan's With Heaven on Top is an 80-minute American odyssey balancing restless wandering with homesick reflection.

With the success of blockbuster albums like Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Lux, and Tropicoqueta, Latin and Spanish-language music had ...

Dahlak Brathwaite’s “Try/Step/Trip,” part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.

The algorithms want you to listen to songs. And not even whole songs, but bits of songs that get chopped up and tumbled through as one reel jumps to the next. Buck the trend and listen to a whole ...

As 0 Miles Per Hour has evolved as a band, so has their sound. In an almost complete turnaround from their 2019 debut single, “Chicas,” the group’s latest album, Shell, trades indie leanings for ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Whatever you think of Minnesota’s reputation as a progressive state politically, you should be happy to note it deserves that distinction musically, too. Many of the best recordings born here in 2025 ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

From an unexpected and addicting country debut to the buzzy second act of an established pop star, these are some of our favorite albums of 2025. By Ethan Millman, Nicole Fell Too often in covering ...

Critic’s 2025 Top 10 centers on women artists; S.G. Goodman to Staples. Selected albums emphasize loss, reconciliation and small-town introspection. Range spans gospel, bluegrass, country, folk, jazz ...