At long last, J. Cole releases his highly anticipated The Fall-Off album. On Friday (Feb. 6), the North Carolina rapper blessed fans with his seventh studio album. The latest album from the Dreamville ...

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent were embroiled in a high-wattage—and highly ...

Madison Beer was only 13 years old back in 2012, when Justin Bieber discovered her YouTube covers, then shared one on Twitter, helping launch her career. Beer has been a pop personality for more than ...

The waiting is the hardest part, when it comes to some recording artists. And if a lot of them come through on their promises, threats or hints of delivering new material in 2026, it will be like a ...

Happy New Year! Having put 2025 to bed (check out our lists here) we’re anxious to see what 2026 brings us. Music-wise, at least. We put together this list of 94 albums that have already been ...

We’re back with another “worst of” list. On Monday, we picked the worst songs of the year. You’ll see some repeats here, but there are a few new entrants who made some woefully disappointing or ...

The title is wrong. SALVATION is anything but. So much of this music pulls from the exciting new bastion of K-pop music coming out right now, like the work of Aespa or TWICE, yet it’s all so generic, ...

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 ...

The Agnes Varda of deep listening returns with another piece of intimate audio vérité, a two-CD headphone collage made from recordings of her mother's final four months. Here, Rossetto's mom tells ...

What were 2025's best rock albums? While we recently shared with you the 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025 with you and named Three Days Grace's Alienation our Rock Album of the Year, we have not ...