The last year has seen some outstanding albums from both veteran performers and relatively new ones as well as some exciting projects outlining particular themes.Russian-born Daria Kulesh released her ...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's leading dancer, Constance Stamatiou, shares her experience performing in Beijing and visiting the Great Wall of China.

To overanalyze “Crazy Rich Asians” is, perhaps, to be overly sincere about something maudlin; perhaps a waste of one’s ...

BAFTA award-winning Michael McIntyre returns to our TV screens on Christmas Day for a tinsel-covered edition of his ...

A) the Sonic Youth co-founder has launched a Substack, and B) his first post is a list of the “350 Best Records of 2025.” ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

Lopatin’s music is key to Marty Supreme’s emotions, and particularly its ending—his gorgeous “Force of Life” complicates the ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

The chunk of time between the day after Christmas and that first full week in January — when most people find themselves ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...