Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025.

With the success of blockbuster albums like Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Lux, and Tropicoqueta, Latin and Spanish-language music had a banner year in 2025. The growth was in the numbers: The Recording ...

The Stockholm post-hardcore band Feels Like Heaven features three members of Speedway, but their music diverges slightly from ...

From the albums we know are dropping at the top of the year, to the in-the-works efforts we hope will drop sometime soon, to ...

To rank the top 10 albums of 2025, Pulse Nigeria sieved through a long list of fine releases to choose the best that stands ...

Among the bands announced earlier today, organizers revealed that Full of Hell, Old Man Gloom, SubRosa, Igorr Cavalera and ...

Lady Zamar's powerful X post reflects on love and growth, while Mzansi recalls her past with Sjava amid mixed reactions from ...

In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

Nearly 50 years after its release, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours isn't just the best selling classic rock album of 2025, it's the 25th-best selling record of the year overall. Of course, the very top of the ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

South African multi-award-winning singer Sjava recently announced the release of his upcoming album, INkanyezi NeZinkanyezi The popular star revealed that he will drop the album in January 2026 on his ...

In other words, 2025 had plenty of peaks and valleys. In our list of the year’s top albums, we try to capture these trends and tell the story of a music scene that is fractured, matching a cultural ...