2026 is here — and already, it’s shaping up to be a big year for music. Artists like A$AP Rocky, Megan Moroney, and Hilary Duff are kicking things off with a bang ...

Here are the 11 best thrash albums of 2025. Thrash has not historically been known for its willingness to reinvent the wheel — when James Hetfield famously sang "full speed or nothing" on Metallica's ...

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

Take a walk down memory lane — and try to quell your disbelief — with the following list of 40 classic rock and metal albums turning 40 in 2026. Nineteen eighty-six was a great time to be an ...

This year’s Best Friends Forever festival featured a reunited Texas Is The Reason and Knapsack, Burning Airlines, Rival Schools, Jawbreaker, Mineral’s final show, and a Jimmy Eat World headlining set ...

And now we turn our attention to 2026 with Stereogum's annual preview of what we're excited to hear next year. This time, I've broken the list into sections to provide context around which inclusions ...

Every new year brings the same question for music fans: what’s next? After a year that brought about some amazing albums, it reminded listeners that great art still rises to the top, even within an ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

The title is wrong. SALVATION is anything but. So much of this music pulls from the exciting new bastion of K-pop music coming out right now, like the work of Aespa or TWICE, yet it’s all so generic, ...

Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

Admittedly, I didn’t do my best at album exploration this year. I would power through listening to a project on new music Friday at the same pace I scroll through my social media feeds.These 10 were ...