From Lady Gaga and Geese to Lily Allen and Rosalía, these are the albums our staff believes every music lover should hear.

With its emphatic power chords and iconic declaration (“ Well I guess this is growing up ”), “Dammit” is perhaps the ...

I fell back in love with Austin music in 2025. Our city has been rife with talented performers since long before I came around, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the embarrassment of riches – and by ...

Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

In mid 2024, there was talk that the U.K. wasn’t producing future stars nearly fast enough and that its reputation as a great exporter of music was threatened. Then, Charli xcx’s Brat happened and ...

You've already seen the Kerrang! Top 50 Albums Of 2025 countdown. But as with the massively broad church that is K!, the ...

While it is easy to get caught up in our newsfeed and consume whatever is put in front of us, some of life’s magic ...

Joe Ely, the influential Texas-born singer-songwriter whose blend of honky-tonk, rock, roadhouse blues, led to collaborations ...

From Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Man’s Best Friend’ to Bad Bunny’s ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,’ here are the best albums of 2025, ...

For nine years here at WMOT, I’ve been proud and privileged to select and remark on thirty albums from the closing year that ...

Record shops used to be more than places to buy music. They were local landmarks where the air smelled like cardboard sleeves ...