Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died, the band ...

Whatever you think of Minnesota’s reputation as a progressive state politically, you should be happy to note it deserves that distinction musically, too. Many of the best recordings born here in 2025 ...

These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten. Musically, they’re all over the map ...

One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, ...

If there's one question that professional music lovers hear most often, it's some variation on: "Heard any good albums lately?" We always have, of course, but when it came time to highlight the cream ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has selected its 10 best albums of the year, presented in no particular order and with a legend describing who might particularly enjoy them, in the vein of our ...

After pushback from organizers and vendors, city officials have decided to let up — to a degree — on the contentious capacity limit at Daley Plaza’s 29th annual Christkindlmarket, a development ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago native Chance the Rapper will not only host but is among the lineup of performers for "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve." The City of Chicago released the full lineup that ...

SAN DIEGO—Sony Electronics today introduced the Alpha 7 V (ILCE-7M5), the fifth generation of its Alpha 7 full-frame mirrorless lineup, powered by the newly developed, partially stacked Exmor RS CMOS ...