Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

As 2025 winds down and 2026 looms on the horizon, it's time to look back at the year that was in pop culture. We asked our For The Win staff members to pick their favorite movies, music, games and ...

Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In October, it was announced that many of MTV’s subchannels in Europe and South America would be discontinued at the end of 2025. But the social ...

Admittedly, I didn’t do my best at album exploration this year. I would power through listening to a project on new music Friday at the same pace I scroll through my social media feeds.These 10 were ...

When artists join forces on a track, the impact can be career-defining—expanding their reach, introducing them to new audiences, and reshaping music conversations. At its best, music collaborations ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

A curated Baker’s Dozen of the best new and reissue albums of 2025, with expert insight and links to full reviews. Paring a year’s worth of standout music releases down to a neat Top 10 turned out to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great music videos never left. If anything, the difference in this era is volume. There are more visuals than ever, thanks to an ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...