On his new album “Lost in Love, Found in Pain,” Japanese musician, actor and humanitarian Miyavi does something he’s never done before: he shifts his focus away from the guitar, the instrument that ...

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

Film and television have changed some since the 1970s, but music has changed decidedly more. That’s especially true of popular music. Of course, there are notable albums that aren’t hits at the time ...

The best Midwest emo albums of the 1990s were contained within the actual Midwest, for the most part. Fast forward to more recent years and we've seen bands from just about every corner of the U.S.

Plot a musician’s catalogue by quality over time, and you’ll often get a line that slopes downwards as the years progress. The best final albums are exceptions: lightning bolts of inspiration ...

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy ...

After listening to the most controversial tracks − “Wood,” “CANCELLED!” and “Actually Romantic” − on Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl," I almost couldn’t bear continuing. I’ve never ...

The first four Danzig albums are being re-released on vinyl. This is the first vinyl reissue of the lps since their initial release, though bootlegs have abounded. The new ones are out via Universal ...

Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...