Paste Magazine is The A.V. Club‘s source for music news and lists, artist interviews, and album reviews. This week, we unveiled our AOTY list, which was topped by the likes of Nourished by Time, CMAT, ...

Our staff's favorite songs from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. On the charts, 2025 was a year that often felt like flipping TV channels to find a new episode to watch and coming across nothing ...

The publication shared the list earlier this week and it features a total of 50 tracks broken up into two categories. The first category, rounded up by writer Jon Caramanica, has "Caramel" from Sleep ...

Our staff's favorite Spanish-language tracks from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. As we close the chapter on 2025, one ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to Moroney and Langley, there was a new class of artists all of whom experienced their first major flushes of success, ...

Mammoth's "The End" is Loudwire's No. 1 rock song of 2025. It's the title track from Mammoth's third album and was also the lead single, released back in May. Wolfgang Van Halen once again took on all ...

Country music has, for generations, been known for its sweet love songs. Fortunately, it’s a trait that continues today. We found four of the most romantic country songs ever, which all came out in ...

How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. For much of 2025, it may have felt like music charts were devoid of hits and pop stars were slumping.