Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

Latin music has never been harder to categorize, and in 2025, a treasure trove of traditional rhythms came to the pop-culture forefront, hybridized with cutting-edge production from the realms of ...

The best indie, underground, and alternative music videos of 2025. It’s that time of the year where I regurgitate all the music videos I’ve consumed over the last 12 months into your eyes and ears ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...