This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden in "The Ballad of Wallis Island" (Alistair Heap) Writing songs for the gently bent comedy “The Ballad of Wallis Island” was a tricky job for British actor, writer, ...

The thrash metal giants from Deutschland are back with a new cut from their forthcoming album Krushers of the World titled “Satanic Anarchy”. And from the moment you hit play, it’s got all of the ...

UCR's list of Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025 shows that the genre remains anything but predictable. There are a trio of duets, including one that was tossed off in less than a month and another that was a ...

Will Smith may be known for his blockbuster movie roles, but he’ll always find ways to remind us his first claim to fame was ...

ChatGPT predicted the headliners for the 2026 Austin City Limits Music Festival. Remember the torture memos? The boat strike memos may be worse. 'Taylor Swift is a Nazi' narrative boosted by ...

Before her breakout role in 1987 as Peg Bundy, the bouffant-topped matriarch on Married… With Children, the voice of Leela on Futurama by the late 1990s, and transitioning into more dramatic roles ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...