In March, as ICE arrests under the new Trump Administration topped thirty thousand and the President threatened new tariffs ...

You’re walking back to the house at dusk.Thinking about dinner. Not thinking about spiders. Then you hit a web.Across the ...

John “Stanky” Stankovic, the legendary Northeast Pennsylvania polka king who entertained millions of people from around the ...

Jon Batiste's eyes lit up as he walked through the National Museum of African American Music to see his exhibit among legends ...

Includes Pulp, Suede, Robert Plant, Bon Iver, Big Thief, Wednesday, Geese, Little Simz, Paul Weller and more… but where did ...

Here is the third part of our playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland. It marks eleventh year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

The video threads together black-and-white footage of the band, otherworldly animation, and microscopic close-ups of a ...

There were thousands and thousands of full-length albums released in 2025. We didn’t hear them all, but here are our critics’ ...

I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

Featuring AI-generated slop, corny rap failures, a semi-cancelled band hitting rock bottom, MAGA worship with an ex-sitcom lead, and the final boss of co-worker music.

Including Britpop classics, punk rarities, a different side of Nick Drake, an over-the-top Big '80s masterpiece, '90s ambient ...