For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent were embroiled in a high-wattage—and highly ...

BTS is officially back — and the name of their long-awaited new album already has ARMY feeling emotional. On Friday, the K-pop supergroup announced that their upcoming album will be titled Arirang, a ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 03: (L-R) V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and J-Hope of BTS attends the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03 ...

Harry Styles has taken a well-deserved break from the spotlight since wrapping his Love On Tour in mid-2023. During the tour, the “As It Was” hitmaker was pulling double duty, performing his music ...

The best winter albums match the moment when December's frenzy of social activity subsides and real hibernation hours kick in—that part of winter where you have no place to be and nothing to do but ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

It’s been two years since Love On Tour wrapped, and while Harry Styles has kept fans guessing ever since, his silence may finally be ending. After a low-key 2025 filled with travel, some random ...

Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny’s sixth album, arrived in January and immediately set the tone for the year ahead. The 17 songs perfectly capture the sonic cacophony that is driving around Puerto Rico ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...