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 ...

Where should you start if you want to represent the '70s in your vinyl collection? Luckily we've got a few selections for essentials that should send you on your way to repeated needle drops and spins ...

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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The news that Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has recorded the biggest sales week for any album ever is an astonishing milestone in the annals of ...

Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. In the three decades since, only 25 albums have sold at least 1 million copies in one week. Taylor Swift has achieved ...

Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, and Eddie Van Halen in 1978. (Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns) “If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your ...

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 ...

The Neighbourhood will unveil a new album, (((((ultraSOUND))))), on Nov. 14 via Warner Records, marking the band’s first studio LP in five years. The announcement comes after the group revealed in ...

Taylor Swift hit a historic 4 million in sales in one week with the debut of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This marks the singer’s 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart ...

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 ...

Nicki Minaj took to X early Wednesday morning to let her fans, and Jay-Z in particular, know that she is pulling a forthcoming album. The rapper – who hasn’t released a record with or is known to have ...