Solo artists commanded six of the ten Top Artist spots this year (G-Dragon, Jennie, Rosé, Lim Young Woong, NCT WISH, PLAVE), ...

Our 2025 year-end gift to you is music discovery! Explore and enjoy these lists of favorite albums from the past year, courtesy of our KCBX DJs. You can explore these albums at our KCBX Spotify page ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Making a list of good things that happened in 2025 may feel like a very short exercise…however despite the world being on ...

The Bandsplain host lost her home in the Eaton Fire this past January—along with a lifetime’s worth of pop-culture ephemera.

From a folk song with purpose from Buffalo Nichols to Trapper Schoepp's strongest album to date, these were the best local music releases of the year.

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a ...

People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more difficult to determine when something ends. After ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Pran … ugh, you know the rest of it. Yes, Virginia, while there is a Santa Claus, the music of the Christmas season can make you shift from having the feels to the ...

When the principal members of Guns N' Roses reunited in 2016, they didn't immediately rediscover their songwriting mojo. Just look at our ranked list of Guns N' Roses post-reunion songs for proof. To ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...