Sjava announces 'Inkanyezi Nezinkanyezi', the emotional finale of his acclaimed trilogy, blending soulful sound with deeper storytelling and spiritual growth.

South African artist Sjava completes his innovative Inkanyezi trilogy with 'Inkanyezi NeZinkanyezi', an album that flipped ...

Family Confirms The Passing Of SA Hip Hop Star Bravo Le Roux. The South African hip-hop scene is reeling after the ...

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 ...

BTS is returning from a multi-year hiatus with a new album followed by a world tour, according to Reuters. “March 20 Comeback Confirmed,” the K-pop group’s agency Big Hit Music said in a post Thursday ...

Every new year brings the same question for music fans: what’s next? After a year that brought about some amazing albums, it reminded listeners that great art still rises to the top, even within an ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...