WILLOW. Altin Gün. Fugazi alumni smashing punk into jazz. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by Evan Miller from WYSO in ...

It is the first time the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry chart-topping song has featured a non-European ...

Bruno Mars earns new radio top 10s as "I Just Might" breaks into the uppermost tier on Billboard's Adult Contemporary and Adult R&B Airplay charts.

Taylor Swift proves why she’s pop royalty.

About half a century ago, drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare revolutionized the sound of reggae as members of the Revolutionaries. Their easily identifiable signature grooves and ...

Paste is the place to kick off each and every New Music Friday. We follow our regular roundups of the best new songs by highlighting the most compelling new records you need to hear. Find the best new ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to explore albums as defining statements rather than collections of hit ...

The best pop songs seem to understand that transcendence exists somewhere between euphoria and despair, that the pop alchemy occurs in the strange collision between these opposing, uncontainable ...

This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest. Whether they dominated the charts, took over social media or just refused to leave our heads, these ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...