Paste is the place to kick off each and every New Music Friday. We follow our regular roundups of the best new songs by ...

Here are 10 essential metal albums from the 1970s that you should absolutely own on vinyl. Look, there’s no real way to accurately describe the sound of ’70s metal, mostly because the genre was ...

Friends and former bandmates testify to the wild charisma and quicksilver poetry of renegade singer-songwriter Townes Van ...

Here are the 11 best progressive doom metal albums of all time (ranked)! Given its emphasis on slow tempos and gloomy sounds ...

James Blake. Kim Gordon. Sturgill Simpson's country-funk alter ego. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Amelia Mason from ...

But The Shaggs’ story, despite its dark edges, is nowhere near as abrasive as their sound (The Shangri-Las go surfing with a ...

Michael Jackson's record-breaking pop album Thriller first made its debut on U.S. music charts on this day in 1983. Produced by Quincy Jones, Thriller became a worldwide sensation that catapulted ...

Featuring Buck Meek, Pulp, Heavenly, Weird Nightmare, Cardinals, Bibi Club, Guided by Voices, Sorry, Fever Ray, 1000 Rabbits, The Bug Club and more of February's best stuff.

View post: Lamar Odom Gives Props to Steph Curry but says “His Greatness Hurt the Game” Thriller debuted on U.S. charts in 1983, becoming the best-selling album ever. The album spent 37 weeks at #1 ...

J. Cole has one of the most storied careers in modern hip-hop, releasing seven albums and four mixtapes over the span of 19 years. Last week we published a ranking of J. Cole's albums. In that story ...

Kim Gordon could not be serious. Yet not only was she not kidding, she had taken a concept that sounded like a punchline and turned it into a project as vital as it was vexing. The Sonic Youth ...

Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti reaches 200 weeks on the Billboard 200 as Debí Tirar Más Fotos sits just beneath the highest spot on the competitive albums ranking.