The year 2025 was rich with new original music from New Jersey and here's a sample of the 13 best the state has to offer.

Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, released the first week of 2025, set the tone for a year in which Latin music continued to be released at a fast and furious speed — but also, one in which key ...

Composer Simon Franglen says work on the third instalment, Avatar: Fire and Ash, took an epic seven years to complete. Along the way, he wrote 1,907 pages of orchestral score; and even invented new ...

The banjo is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, due in part to one epic player who's now going viral for her unique take on the country music staple. Winter weather warning as 40 inches of snow to ...

Banjo-Kazooie is now playable on PlayStation - at least, a fan-made version created in Dreams - and it's even caught the eye of Rare. Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania has been created by William Butkevicius, ...

For years, Banjo-Kazooie fans have been begging for something new in the long-dormant series. Outside of a one-off experimental platformer back in 2008, and a couple of HD re-releases in the 2010s, ...

Update [Fri 5th Dec 2025, 5am]: Dreams creator Eupholace’s absurdly good Banjo-Kazooie fan game went viral on social media this week, and has even attracted attention from series creator Rare. Writing ...

In a small workshop tucked away just outside Belfast, one of the most traditional instruments in Irish music is undergoing a quiet revolution. At the heart of it is Paul Conlon, whose passion for the ...

Ron Block of Alison Krauss and Union Station plays Folk In Fusion on 13 January at Waterfront Hall, Belfast as part of the Your Roots Are Showing Music Conference. We asked him the BIG questions . . .

Is there anything Steve Martin can’t do? The comedian-actor-playwright-banjo player has earned his seventh No. 1 on the bluegrass albums chart in the U.S. with Safe, Sensible and Sane, his ...

The theme song for the Halloween franchise is almost as iconic as Michael Myers himself. That simple yet sinister tune makes me want to curl up on the couch and watch something scary. There are no ...

The banjo was played by Rod Davis, who often handed it to John Lennon when they played together A banjo played by John Lennon has been unveiled alongside a mosaic featuring nearly 1,300 images of The ...