Guitar playing is, and will always be, a mainstay in rock music. Though it’s taken many forms, the genre was built around the guitar. Throughout the decades, a particular guitar sound has had the ...

Remember this Allman Brothers Band gem from early 1972? This Southern rock blues album followed the band’s legendary live breakthrough album, At Fillmore East, in 1971. It was an amazing follow-up, to ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

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 ...

Artists stepping outside their usual terrain, while others going deep in the one they're familiar with, take center stage in this week's selection of standout releases.

For the past year, Ken Scaggs has led the Pittsburgh office of commercial insurance broker Aon. The agency, with its office here based downtown, employs around 60 locally, and it focuses on insurance ...

As classic rock finds new ways to expand in the 21st century, the artists whose careers stretch back half a century or more continue to grow, too. As the list below of the Top 20 Rock Albums of 2025 ...

Two albums placed back-to-back on this list of the 50 greatest country covers epitomize how important album art was and is. What Are the Greatest Country Album Covers of All Time? At No. 20, find ...