Including Britpop classics, punk rarities, a different side of Nick Drake, an over-the-top Big '80s masterpiece, '90s ambient ...

With the holiday gift-giving season nigh, here are our favorite multidisc sets of the year, perfect for the music nerd with a deep attention span in your life. This year’s batch includes expanded ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

Among thousands of new metal songs that came out in 2025, these 13 have been on maximum repeat.

In 2023, we saw a plethora of new box set offerings, mostly those that revisited classic albums of the past while offering new expanded editions. While it’s never easy repurchasing something one ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...