THIS year,gospel musicians the Charambas and Shingisai Suluma have announced their celebrations of 30 years of celebrating gospel music ministry. To mark the milestone, The Charambas released three ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

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 November. If you’re ...

Stopgap cash grab by the record company or the result of artist indulgence that can't be contained within the usual confines of a single LP? The double album has been both throughout its long and ...

As expected from the midpoint of a decade, the center year of the '80s, 1985, was caught between movements, styles and trends. Change has always been the nucleus of any great music; to keep art ...

Please please please … may we have another year-in-music in 2025 as strong as this one? In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment ...

As we hit the halfway mark of 2024, All About Jazz has adopted Major League Baseball's All-Star break approach but with albums instead of homers. Our team gathered to pick their top three albums of ...

We’re halfway through 2024 and just posted a list of our 40 favorite albums of 2024 so far, which includes multiple genres of music, including metal. For even more metal, we’ve now put together a list ...

I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this. I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the ...

Taylor Swift is one of the most influential singers and songwriters of her era. Born in 1989, she released her first album in 2006 and toured with country acts, then gradually shifted to pop music.

Wayne Shorter, one of a few musical sages who left our earthly plane this year, had a standard take on the subject of finality. "To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything," Shorter, the ...