With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

As the seasons continue to change with more rapidity and the weeks turn into months that roll into years, there are at least a few constants: death, taxes and Taylor Swift. Even if she’s not on tour ...

The rapper, fashion icon and writer just released his 17th album called “Episodes,” alongside his third book, “Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man,” which details his own mental health crisis.

The best AC/DC albums are simply the archetypal sound of hard rock. Whereas those that came before them made their name on bells and whistles—technicolor solos, outrageous displays of confidence, ...

With great sorrow, we announce the passing of Brenda Lee (Good) Baker, of Stanley, N.C. She went home to her Lord and Savior on Thursday Oct. 15, 2025, at the age of 64, after a brief battle with ...

“I lived 32 years without knowing,” Davonn Hodge says of the revelation. The subject behind one of 2Pac’s most iconic songs is telling his story. Author Jeff Pearlman, whose upcoming biography about ...

It's Friday, and our favorite new albums this week skew international. Tame Impala's new album, Deadbeat, is inspired by Australia's "bush doof" scene, where ne'er-do-wells escape to the outback to ...

Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...

MAITLAND, Mo. – Brenda Murphy 56, of Maitland, Missouri, passed away Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in Mound City, Missouri. She was born Aug. 23, 1969, in Galt, California. Survived by husband, Drew Murphy ...

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music. By Jon Pareles In his music, ...

Taylor Swift hit a historic 4 million in sales in one week with the debut of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This marks the singer’s 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart ...