Daily Newsletter, December 5, 2025

Another year (almost) gone and another year of fantastic releases. As always, here at Louder Than War, we have put our hive mind together to come up with

Featuring Geese, Wet Leg, Suede, the Beths, Cass McCombs, Panda Bear, and more

We're in the last month of 2025 and for certain artists, it'll have been the biggest year of lives. We round up the names who dominated conversation this year...

Guy Williams is a righteously angry comedian from New Zealand. He punctuates his sets simply by highlighting something dreadful that has occurred recently. Then he will buckle his lanky frame and scream into the microphone. Those bits, regularly used as an unsubtle segue into Williams’ next topic, aren’t particularly side-splitting. They can, nevertheless, be very […]

Including albums by Rosalía, Dijon, Lady Gaga, Geese, Taylor Swift, Addison Rae, and more.

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As guitarist and co-writer of seminal hits like (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay and Green Onions, Cropper left an indelible mark on the music of the 1960s

We all love a little bit of nostalgia, so here are five songs from 2025 that have transported us back in time to bygone eras of music history.

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.

From punk rebels to pop goddesses, these 21 frontwomen redefined charisma, power, and presence

Japanese Television's Al Brown eagerly licks the toxins of the back of a Sonoran desert toad and sinks into a bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars resulting in an album of slithery bedroom electro-psych well-suited to the late, winter months

Roll up! The Fab Four's greatest songs, chosen by famous fans including Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Paul Weller, David Byrne and Edwyn Collins

No duds allowed: 11 bands whose discographies are masterpieces of consistency and flawless quality

The future of the genre lies in places where it’s less insular and more artistically adventurous. The 20 best jazz albums are outstanding examples of that impulse.

Here are NME’s best films of 2025 – please don’t watch them on TikTok in 25 parts

Plus recent songs by Wolf Alice, Model/Actriz, Brad Stank, Water From Your Eyes, and Florence and the Machine

The FADER's weekly roundup of the best new songs right now including "A Flex" by Dawn Richard, "Mr. Dada" by Prostitute, "Paysexual" by Guapdad 4000, and more.