Briggs Cherry, who had started his high school career at Catholic High School as a freshman quarterback in the fall of 2022, helped lead Chattanooga Baylor to a state championship Dec. 4 in the highly ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

T he Manhattan hotel where Slick Rick is staying has exactly the kind of opulence you’d expect him to be lounging in. While waiting for our interview, I fall into a fluffy white couch in a waiting ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

Mike McElroy described it as “one of the most emotionally charged five minutes of my life.” Bethel led Susquehanna by four in the final minute of the NCAA Division III quarterfinal in Pennsylvania ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

Sanusi, popularly known as Baptista, has released her long-awaited album, I Won, coinciding with her birthday on December 26, 2025. The project, described by the artiste as a testimony of endurance, ...

NEW YORK, NY — As the Bollywood anthem “Dhoom Machale” filled the air, Zohran Mamdani stood hand in hand with his wife, Rama Duwaji, on stage, smiling toward a crowd that roared his name. A few steps ...

Jasmine Cruickshank—the Manc singer-songwriter who makes music under the name jasmine.4.t—celebrated becoming the first British artist signed to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records label last ...