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You know what’s wild about music history? Some of the most influential rock albums ever made were basically ignored when they ...

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Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by BBC News.

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

There are plenty of albums that might have made the cut on a different day. But good list-making requires hubris, constraint. A moment of wild and fearless conviction.

It has been eight years since Radiohead's last shows in the UK so the band's surprise announcement in September that they would be performing live again with four dates in London and a host dates in ...