I always love a really huge-feeling year, with new albums from some pop music titans who lived up to however long it took to hear new music from them. Beyoncé’s latest was everything I hoped for: ...

After an ever-changing pandemic shut us all down for what seemed like an eternity, a bright spot opened up in 2022. Artists began releasing a plethora of new music to help us cope with our ...

(STACKER) – Some could call 2022 the comeback year for music artists. Others might even dub it the year COVID-19 seemingly backed down, no longer thwarting the thrill live music concertgoers have ...

Last week, Luminate Data released its 2022 Year End Music Report, a summary of the past year in music consumption, demographics, and other data. Although much of the report focuses on demographic data ...

I’ve never been particularly strategic about listening to new music; I tend to pursue it in arbitrary bursts or to let it float into my life in whichever way it can. I’m not even sure I could impose ...

Often, the best albums of the year come from lesser-known artists who haven’t burst into mainstream consciousness yet. But in 2022, superlative frequently meshed with popular: Taylor Swift’s ...

The English outfit Black Country, New Road was a new discovery for me this year and came at a dramatic turn for the group. The formerly seven-person rock band released its album “Ants From Up There” ...

One of our favorite things here at Paste—indeed one of the reasons we started Paste Magazine 20 years ago—is to new artists find an audience and to help our audience discover great new music. We hope ...

Remember 2022? It wasn’t as bad for most people as 2020 and 2021, but it wasn’t exactly a full-on Return to Normal, Good Times, either. It was a year wracked with war, oppression, poverty, inequality, ...

This week, NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers steer the New Music Friday podcast straight into the oncoming Father's Day weekend, following the lead of country superstar Luke Combs, whose ...

Lamar: Getty Images; Swift/Rosalia; Courtesy Image; Lizzo: Courtesy of AB+DM There’s really hardly such a thing as a hive mind in music anymore. Accordingly, there are no direct repeats among the two ...