Pearl Jam isn’t quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an ...

No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the rise of TikTok-optimized tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that—a way of ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...

Let's take a look at the 25 most-played songs on rock radio in 2025. Of course, rock has many definitions for fans and these stats will specifically deal with what's being played the most on hard rock ...

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. An announcement on Aug. 27 from Spotify named five songs of the summer, hand-selected by the ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

It is almost impossible to put into words how vitally important Ozzy Osbourne — who died today at 76 — and Black Sabbath, the band that he helped loft to fame, were to the history of heavy music. The ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

The top country songs of 2025 prove that the next generation has arrived. You'll only find one song on this list of 10 songs that comes from a former Male or Female Vocalist of the Year winner. That ...

Julián F.L. is a Video Game & Anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He knows every single Pokémon by ...