Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in November. If you’re ...

What a year it’s been for great music — as opposed to, say, everything else. But we’re almost halfway into 2025, and it’s already crowded with new albums that deliver what we need in terms of ...

Please please please … may we have another year-in-music in 2025 as strong as this one? In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

We’re halfway through 2024 and just posted a list of our 40 favorite albums of 2024 so far, which includes multiple genres of music, including metal. For even more metal, we’ve now put together a list ...

I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this. I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the ...

Beyoncé could bow out of music today, and she’ll have released enough music to explore for decades to come. But that’s not a worry — with the release tonight of “Cowboy Carter,” she’s onto the second ...

Taylor Swift is one of the most influential singers and songwriters of her era. Born in 1989, she released her first album in 2006 and toured with country acts, then gradually shifted to pop music.

1984 was a pivotal year for music. MTV's dominance and influence made its strongest impact on the charts, bringing previously niche subgenres like synth-pop and metal to the forefront of mainstream ...

Wayne Shorter, one of a few musical sages who left our earthly plane this year, had a standard take on the subject of finality. "To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything," Shorter, the ...

The year’s most thrilling albums were made by artists pushing beyond borders, teaming with new collaborators and making bold statements of their own. By Giovanni Russonello That thing we keep calling ...