Daily Newsletter, December 8, 2025

It might be my favourite part of a flight: That moment near the end when you feel the plane subtly downshift and start to descend. I had the exact same sensation as I completed this list of 280-plus new LPs, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues, cassettes and streaming releases landing […]

Hello Cosmos are on fighting form with their second album, Come Out Tonight. Andy Brown joins the revolution for Louder Than War.

This rogue's gallery of rock's elder statesmen (and women) are all (in different ways) refusing to trade youth and rebellion for pipe and slippers

While the two musicians were responsible for writing some of the decade's biggest songs, they believed this was the very best of the 1960s.

Jakub Knera rounds off the year in Central and Eastern European music with a reflection on how the region's complex ecosystem is reflected in its cultural output, and a selection of 2025's key albums and reissues

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.

During a time when the Yorkshire Ripper was on the loose and the National Front was on the march, a tight-knit group of punks looked to make a statement.

Some may have seen most of it before, but it deserves to be seen now: Here is why you should watch the new version of 'The Beatles Anthology.'

A look at the history of Abbey Road Studios, the ghost that reportedly haunts it and who that ghost might just be after looking at its history.

From Miles Davis to Mahavishnu Orchestra, we run through the 15 greatest albums fusing jazz and rock into arresting new soundscapes

The Bottom Line tops the bill, Gentle Giant’s frontman climbs the corporate beanstalk, Apples In Stereo get picked, Stray Kids get found, Tom Waits gets his closeup — and more titles for your to-do list. Read all about ’em:   Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, The Bottom […]

The year's top music-related reads include bios and memoirs associated with the Beatles, The Band, Tom Petty, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Santana and others.

Whether or not we believe that the cards of the tarot have supernatural powers, we all think of them primarily as tools for divination. It might seem as if they've played that cultural role since time immemorial, but in fact, that particular use only goes back to the eighteenth century.

Pulp, Flea, Lucinda Williams, The Delines, The Lemon Twigs, Hen Ogledd, The Coral, Aphex Twin and more

New York has inspired musicians from all over the world, whose songs then inspired films and art, and the highs and lows are best captured by these 40 songs.