From Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” to Lily Allen’s “West End Girl,” these are the best albums of the year, according to ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

Most importantly, the album helped make "trill" - a combination of true and real - as part of the pop-culture lexicon. It's a ...

It’s an end of year special!

In case you've been living under a rock, Bad Bunny was, once again, crowned as the most-streamed artist globally on Spotify.

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

Perhaps a wise prophet named Addison Rae sums it up best: “So I put my headphones on / Listen to my favorite song.” And, boy, ...

Bob Mould, Stereolab, and Jeff Tweedy among them — are essential architects of the indie sound, with careers that go back ...

Led Zeppelin closes their epic, mythic 1971 masterpiece with a towering, monolithic slab of blues rock that sounds unlike ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the last song to become a holiday standard, arrived in 1994 — and didn’t ...

With 2025 coming to a close, that means we've reached the halfway point for this decade. Difficult as that may be to believe, ...

The issue is The ultimate review of 2025: the best albums, the biggest events and the megastars who rocked our world.