The 2026 halftime Super Bowl show will be performed by Puerto Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny. The three-time Grammy winner ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve been asking artists about their favorite albums of the year. Al Menne of Great Grandpa made us a list of his five favorites, and you can see those, and his commentary, ...

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 ...

Harry Hirt, 87, of Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, formerly of Tigerton, Wisconsin, passed away on Sunday, November 2, 2025, following a brief illness. He was born in Tigerton, Wi., on Feb. 21, 1938. We ...

File this under: Profiles in Crate Diggers. There’s a lot of talk these days about the loss or lack of “third places.” The kinds of spaces that are neither home nor work, where you can go to enjoy ...

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in October. If you’re not ...

When U.S. immigration authorities detained Imam Ayman Soliman at a routine check-in July 9, the outcry was swift. Known as the "interfaith imam" for his work at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and a ...

It was sometime in the latter part of the 1960s that R&B gave way to soul and, by extension, funk. It wasn't a scene so much at first as it was a grouping of like-minded artists taking their music to ...

After wreaking havoc and dishing out dissonance since 1981 — evolving from its early synth-pop dance roots into the industrial thrash metal chaos it’s best known for — Ministry’s band leader Al ...

If there was a golden era for three-disc releases, it was clearly the '70s. Half of the items in the following list of Top 20 Triple Albums arrived in that decade. What Not to Expect From Rock Tours ...