In 2025, the best rock music radiated self-assurance. That sometimes meant staking a claim to micro-genre legacies, but just as often meant leaning hard into idiosyncrasies. This year’s best and ...

After previously digging into pop-punk albums from the 1980s and 1990s, we’re looking at the best album from each year of the 2000s. This era saw pop-punk become a dominant musical force, with its ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...