Here are the 67 best rock and metal songs of 2024! While 67 songs feels like quite a generous crop, these standouts represent just a small, small percentage of the thousands of new tracks released ...

This list of NPR Music's best songs of 2023 looks unlike any we've ever made before. It's not just the number of songs that has changed. There are no rankings here — in fact, the 123 songs below ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), the 21st century it did signal a new era where ...

Donny Fandango catches up backstage with Alkaline Trio — and yeah, it gets loud fast. Matt Skiba, Dan Andriano, and Atom ...

Kylie Minogue raced back to the center of the dance floor with a viral smash. A surprise Shakira track broke the internet. Sexyy Redd owned every summer DJ set. And NewJeans rode a drum-and-bass beat ...

If 2024 focused on catchy starts, 2025 went wild with sound. This year, the Indian internet loved loud beats, raw voices, and music from every corner of the country. People stopped caring about ...

In November, it was promised that Playboi Carti would be playing songs from his long-awaited album I Am Music at Rolling Loud Miami. Well, the festival went down this past weekend, and indeed, Carti ...

"I thought I'd kick you in the pants." And so begins our annual conversation with NPR Music's Lars Gotrich about the year in metal and what he sometimes calls "outer sound." It's a nebulous grouping ...