Whether it is due to Jim Morrison’s polarizing poetry, the perceived self-indulgence of a twenty-minute synth solo, or the calculated polish of corporate-backed stadium anthems, these bands frequently ...

Paste is the place to kick off each and every New Music Friday. We follow our regular roundups of the best new songs by highlighting the most compelling new records you need to hear. Find the best new ...

Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest guitarists of all time. Here are 150 icons, forgotten heroes, and the best and ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. You can hear these songs in our ongoing Best ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of my life ...

For all of its exhausting megastar narratives and apparent monoculture victories, 2023 was, beneath the surface, an unpredictable year. Regional Mexican Music burst into the mainstream, underground ...

One day, I heard some strange sound coming down from the basement. I went down, and I see my dad headbanging to ‘Enter Sandman’ Music, it seems, was always on the cards for him. Born in Sweden in 1984 ...

2022 was the year of the comeback. As the music industry stumbled out of its pandemic fog, many artists finally delivered long delayed, highly anticipated, and sonically experimental albums that met ...

Pedalboard space; the struggle is real for guitarists. There's just never enough room, is there? The only solution is to downsize, not the pedalboard of course. That would be ridiculous! No, we need ...

A small stage. Blue spotlights. A duo step out, keyboards and drums. They are billed as jazz musicians. They look astonishingly young. What they are wearing is ridiculous, like puffy ski suits from ...