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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Swift dropped her first album at just 16, bursting onto the country music scene with hits like “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on My Guitar.” Her self-titled debut is remembered for its starry-eyed lyrics ...

One major theme that runs through Pitchfork’s best albums of 2024 is disbelief. There are pop albums that defy all expectations, indie rock records that shouldn’t work but do, rap tapes that are made ...

The rapper’s sixth studio album follows the success of a pair of tracks this year that were sparked by a war of words with Drake. By Ben Sisario Kendrick Lamar, the rapper laureate and one of the ...

This year alone, Jack Antonoff — musician, producer, husband of Margaret Qualley — has worked with Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Lana Del Rey, Japanese Breakfast, Bartess Strange, Nick Cave, The ...

I think about Tom Petty a lot. But in October, I think about him a little bit more. This month marks two important Tom Petty milestones— it’s the seventh anniversary of his death (Oct. 2), and the ...