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 ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

Ayyoun is a staff writer who loves all things gaming and tech. His journey into the realm of gaming began with a PlayStation 1 but he chose PC as his platform of choice. With over 6 years of ...

It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more ...

Texas has never really done Christmas the traditional way. Some years the state is freezing, some years it’s closer to shorts and T-shirt weather, and the music is just as unpredictable. If you love ...

The Agnes Varda of deep listening returns with another piece of intimate audio vérité, a two-CD headphone collage made from recordings of her mother's final four months. Here, Rossetto's mom tells ...

Since entering the starting lineup three games ago, Ware's been a force, recording three straight double-doubles. In those games, he averaged 47.6 fantasy points by posting 24.7 points, 15.0 rebounds ...

People would have laughed and rolled their eyes if the 1977 movie smash “Star Wars” had even suggested that — one day in the future, in a galaxy far, far away — hit records would be created entirely ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 3: Lorde performs in concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) It was a year of ...

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 ...

The winner of The Road was overcome with emotion, while two runners up were left to wonder what he or she could have changed. Sunday night's (Dec. 21) season finale of The Road crowned a champion ...

Fans of Chappell Roan can now say that they have something in common with former U.S. President Barack Obama. On Thursday, Dec. 18, Obama released his annual list of his favorite songs, books and ...