Hotel California stands as the Eagles’ crowning achievement and often ranks at or near the top of their discography for good ...

What a phenomenal year for music! There were so many incredible releases from artists new and old that it was really, really ...

USC School of Music bassoon professor Michael Harley and his ensemble Alarm Will Sound won Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble ...

Harmonious country and folk tunes have been a part of this Twin Cities trio’s DNA since Honeydogs frontman Adam Levy first met up with fellow singer/songwriters Savannah Smith and Barb Brynstad as a ...

The Bay Area is hosting its third Super Bowl this year. The San Francisco area has been cranking out vital rock and roll since the mid-1960s.

In 1976, music thrived in diversity, with Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad about a shipwreck and McCartney's playful love ...

Matteo Mancuso has a distinct style in which he plays the electric guitar without a pick which creates a unique sound that ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

My album of the year came as a real surprise to me, Arvo Pärt’s output hitherto not leaving much of an impression. But Credo (Alpha Classics), from the Estonian Festival Orchestra under Pärt's ...

A couple years ago on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” host Terry Gross talked with musician David Byrne about some of his favorite Christmas music. Naturally, his picks were eclectic, intellectually curious, and ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...