This year was One Battle After Another. There were Stranger Things. We lived through some epic Eras. Were you tuned in? Test ...

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, ...

Matthew McConaughey considered monastic life for decade before monk friend steered him toward storytelling What Happens When You Hit an 850 Credit Score? Here's the Truth Scripps News obtains body ...

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 ...

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 ...

Styx's Tommy Shaw says he remembers getting “goose pimples” the first time he heard a Chicago record. “I couldn’t believe there was music that elaborate and soulful and it was still rock,” the ...

Chicago and Styx, two bands that got their start in the Windy City, will play together for the first time on a national co-headlining tour that will stop at Northwell at Jones Beach Theater next ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Chicago and Styx will tour together next summer starting in July. The Windy Cities Tour - All The Hits…Your Kind of Tour is set to launch July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida and will continue through ...