Daily Newsletter, 2025

For our tenth anniversary, we asked Lucy Dacus, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Indigo De Souza, OMD’s Andy McCluskey, Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Phantogram, Blondshell, and more to write about the records that inspired them the most from 2015 to 2025.

The world of alternative music is thriving like a chaotic hive against the odds, and this hive has produced a scattergun of disparate gems in 2025.

Eagle-eyed tQ readers will have spotted that there was no best-of-November round-up last month, in order to make room for our Albums of the Year chart. Nevertheless, it’d be a shame to let those records that defined the final weeks of 2025 slip by without a spotlight. Proud as we are of the main chart, […]

Brazilian pop thrived because artists recombined local textures with pop to paint a picture of how the country is rewriting its relationship to identity.

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From the classics to today's brightest new stars, we rank the best rock albums of 2025.

Timeless artefacts and sonic anomalies: 15 singular albums that abandoned the cultural conveyor belt to exist in their own dimensions

Blind Faith were one of the first ever supergroups, and holding everything together was Ric Grech. His music is a triumph, but his life ends in tragedy.

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Brian A. Anderson retraces the chaotic, mind-bending 1965 Muir Beach Acid Test—where Owsley Stanley, Ken Kesey’s Pranksters, and the newly named Grateful Dead collided.

Absolutely nothing about Frank Zappa was meant for public consumption, but even a man like him leaned towards generic pop music.

Despite the sunny music of Crosby, Stills & Nash, there was plenty of drama, and this song tells it in its entirety.

From creative dead ends to personal turmoil, these bands were on the brink of breaking up – until something changed

100 years isn't a long time for musical movements, but it's an eternity for actual songs. So, which will be remembered for that long?