"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2025, the one thing that seemed to connect the best albums of the year was the concept of home. As ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Here is Loudwire's ranking of the 13 best metal albums of 2025. We've already anointed singled out this year's 51 best rock and metal albums of the year overall, but now it's time to get into the ...

Here are the 11 best progressive rock albums of 2025! Loudwire recently looked at the best prog metal albums of 2025, with artists both well established (Amorphis, Between the Buried and Me) and ...

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 ...

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

2025 was one hell of a year. From the tumultuous political climate, the continued rise of social media, and the uncertainty of the future. One thing that remains consistent however, is the beauty of ...

If there's one question that professional music lovers hear most often, it's some variation on: "Heard any good albums lately?" We always have, of course, but when it came time to highlight the cream ...

2025 was an unusual year for pop music in general. The charts reflected existing listening habits, meaning that songs over a year old still hung around in the Top 10 (we're looking at you, Teddy Swims ...

If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen to run through 12 dazzling albums that stuck with ...