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Thurston Moore fans take note: A) the Sonic Youth co-founder has launched a Substack, and B) his first post is a list of the “350 Best Records of 2025.” That’s

Brigitte Bardot, actress, singer, screen icon, sex symbol, activist, and, late in life a controversial figure, has died at age 91. The news came via her foundation: “The Brigitte Bardot

Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, has had a busy 2025. He released his new 0PN album, Tranquilizer,  and scored new film Marty Supreme. The movie is the solo directorial

Perry Bamonte, who played guitar and other instruments in The Cure, has died after a short illness. He was 65. The news was shared via The Cure’s website: IT IS

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list

It’s been another great year for metal its many, many forms. After years of death metal seeming like the extreme metal subgenre of choice, black metal had its biggest year

Marie Davidson made one of our favorite albums of 2025, City of Clowns, and now she’s here to tell us about one of her favorite albums of this year, Kara-Lis‘

Christmas has come early: Wilco have shared their annual version of a best-of list, their Wilco Recommends list, which this year includes Geese (and Cameron Winter), Wednesday, Rosalia, Hayley Williams,

We’ve been asking some of our favorite artists about their favorite music from 2025. Here we’ve got a list from Jay Ferguson, the resident musicologist in Canadian greats Sloan, who

Over the weekend, longtime Flaming Lips member Steven Drozd wrote on social media that he was no longer in the band. “They’re done with me — but we’re not talking