The visionary electronic artist behind one of the year’s most daring and acclaimed scores reflects on shaping a desert ...

Bruno Mars, Jill Scott and Mandy, Indiana have new albums on the way, and a frantic tune from an anime film is No. 1 in Japan ...

By Melinda Newman Megan Moroney has some famous friends joining her on Cloud 9, her third full-length album arriving Feb. 20 on Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records. The emo cowgirl’s new 15-track ...

GR FKA Twigs, Eusexua After struggling to connect with FKA Twigs’ previous albums, Eusexua hit me like a revelation. At first ...

Concept albums are exactly what they say on the tin, a collection of songs strung together through a theme or narrative that ...

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 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 ...

If you were a teenager in Europe during the late 2000s, you’ll vividly remember Agnes’s voice from the soaring harmonies and dramatic strings of “Release Me,” which hit the top 10 all over the ...

The R&B singer asks big questions about love and heartbreak on a ruminative album that’s retro in all the right ways. Mark knows she’s not reinventing the wheel. When asked what inspired her latest ...

Miley Cyrus’ eighth studio album Something Beautiful arrived earlier this year complete with a visual album and a continuing evolution of the lifelong star’s sound. The album, billed as her version of ...

Following the release of her visual album Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus has dropped Something Beautiful Deluxe, an expanded version of the album featuring two new songs. Leading the release is ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...