Elissa and Saad Lamjarred's 2022 hit Min Awel Dekika demonstrated that Arab pop collaborations can work, despite their ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

The nominations for SOS Deluxe: Lana just keep on coming. By Paul Grein SZA’s SOS Deluxe: Lana, the deluxe edition of her 2022 album SOS, has set a new record as the album with the most tracks that ...

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 ...

If there’s one thing Amr Diab loves doing, it’s breaking his own records — and this week, “Al-Hadaba” has done it again. Just when you think the competition might catch up, he adds another milestone ...

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Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Two albums placed back-to-back on this list of the 50 greatest country covers epitomize how important album art was and is. What Are the Greatest Country Album Covers of All Time? At No. 20, find ...

Tue, December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM UTC Having sold more than 4 million copies of her 12th album in its first week, The Life of Showgirl, Swift naturally claimed the top spot on the Billboard 200, making ...