As a long and eventful 2025 draws to a close, NME remembers the influential and beloved musicians who left us this year ...

David Roy speaks to The Mary Wallopers, Therapy? and Ash about what’s on their Christmas playlists - and which tunes ...

After releasing The World Under Unsun, he’s defiantly making himself listen to more records and read more books. He ponders ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal songs of 2025! We know you all have a long, long list of your favorites from this year, whether it's in a playlist curated by our streaming overlords and ones ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

(KTLA) — Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

"Missa Sacra Profana" by Andrew Bearden In February, I was honored to partake in the world premiere of "Missa Sacra Profana," a choral piece by my friend, San Diego composer and musician Andrew ...

"End of You," the powerhouse collaboration between Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante is Loudwire's Best Metal Song of the ...