New Christmas albums—from Mickey Guyton and Eric Benét to Roberta Flack and vintage holiday reissues worth revisiting.

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

On this Greatest Pop Stars podcast, we talk about our staff's year-end albums and songs lists, and how stars like Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift fared.

From Agriculture to Ancient Death, Paradise Lost to Pissgrave, Corpus Offal to Coroner, here are the best metal albums of ...

On WETA Arts, 19 D.C.-area choral groups offer holiday music to celebrate the season. Celebrate the holidays with the 6th annual WETA Arts presentation of Songs of the Season! A WETA holiday tradition ...

In other words, 2025 had plenty of peaks and valleys. In our list of the year’s top albums, we try to capture these trends and tell the story of a music scene that is fractured, matching a cultural ...