Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong is the debut album by the London-based duo Woo. Originally issued on the ...

Here is Loudwire's ranking of the 13 best metal albums of 2025. We've already anointed singled out this year's 51 best rock and metal albums of the year overall, but now it's time to get into the ...

In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Willowtip Records / Reigning Phoenix Music / Season of Mist / Inside Out Music / Napalm Records Which progressive metal records blew us away the most over the last dozen or so months, you might ask?

A new 37-track boxed set released alongside a biopic tracking the making of his 1982 album underscores how sometimes a musician’s first recording is the right one. By Jon Pareles Demo-itis. That’s the ...

There are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records — worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic ...

In late 1981, Bruce Springsteen was living in a rented house in Colts Neck, N.J., decompressing from a grueling world tour following the release of his 1980 album, “The River.” He had a batch of new ...

Nelson was at the height of his commercial success in the late 1970s and early ’80s. During this period, he released timeless songs like “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” “Georgia on My Mind,” and “My ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Across the pond, the reviews were more unforgiving. Britain’s The Guardian gave the album two out ...