The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative ...

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 ...

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There were, of course, some absolute stinkers too. Here’s my pick of the best (and worst) albums of 2025.

Pinchgut OperaCity Recital Hall, November 27Until December 3Reviewed by PETER McCALLUM★★★★★Since its small-scale premier in Dublin in 1742, Handel’s Messiah has grown into a cultural icon that seems, ...