Including Britpop classics, punk rarities, a different side of Nick Drake, an over-the-top Big '80s masterpiece, '90s ambient ...

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Want something new to listen to for Christmas? These are three one-hit wonders that are perfect for a celebratory playlist.

Christmas has always made me nostalgic, but I have come to realize, with something of a jolt— perhaps because I just turned ...

Rob Sheffield's favorite albums of 2025 came from Wednesday, Lifeguard, Taylor Swift, Geese, Clipse, Addison Rae, Rosalia, Billy Wwods, and many more ...

The new film "Song Sung Blue" pays homage to the catalog of Neil Diamond, and it is one worth celebrating. We rank his 10 ...

Did you know Kate Hudson can sing? Like, REALLY sing? She soft rocks with Hugh Jackman in "Song Sung Blue," a Neil ...

With the Official Christmas Number 1 results still fresh in our memory, this week’s Official Chart First Look sees WHAM! and Last Christmas potentially back on top to clinch the final Number 1 of 2025 ...

The deal includes performance-based earn-outs contingent on Enigma's strategies generating $40 million in net income.

Our contributors choose their favourites of the year, including Dijon, Geese and Haim.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...