If you're after great classic rock, Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, Television's Marquee Moon, and Black Sabbath's Paranoid are ...

Some of the most influential rock albums ever made were basically ignored when they first came out. Radio stations wouldn’t ...

The music industry has gone through cycles. First it was vinyl, then cassettes and eight-tracks (ugh), CDs, and so on and so on. What goes around comes around and vinyl is back in fashion. The sound ...

In the fall of 1991, jazz legend Miles Davis died of pneumonia, respiratory failure, and a stroke. At the time of his death, he was deep into a new project with Brooklyn-based producer Easy Mo Bee, ...

Fleetwood Mac’s shape-shifting legacy spans blues, pop and rock classics. Here’s how their eclectic albums stack up, from ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

More than 60 years later, Elvis Presley’s 1957 Christmas album is still the best-selling holiday record ever made.

Below the surface of the mainstream, music had a wonderful year—making the task of whittling down 2025’s best albums to a top-10 list maddeningly difficult—though you’d hardly know it from looking at ...

In the late ’90s, Anthony “Top” Tiffith built a studio in his Carson, California home. Not even the most ambitious person could have imagined what would follow. Within a decade, Top launched Top Dawg ...

Here are the 11 best progressive rock albums of 2025! Loudwire recently looked at the best prog metal albums of 2025, with artists both well established (Amorphis, Between the Buried and Me) and ...

From Mavis Staples to the Kronos Quartet—these are our music critic’s favorite works from this year. The Lebanese Civil War. Corporate agri-capitalism. Tips for surviving a nasty divorce. Violence, ...