We scoured the planet to find some of the best albums of 2026. As usual, our gaze is cast across many different styles, but some our very favorites mash-up genres.
So much remarkable music was released in 1991 that it’s difficult to choose just 20 memorable songs of 1991 without a few omissions.
Our Best Books of 2025 draws from inventive authors and scrappy publishers. Has there ever been a better time to be a reader than these tumultuous times?
In these challenging times, the best soul and R&B albums walked tall and carried a big stick, while also being a much-needed balm and source of warmth.
This was another noteworthy year for the best rock music. Some artists followed a debut with a stunning second LP and mainstays showed a return to form or evolved.
These 12 psyche-burrowing, Halloween-perfect horror movies indulge our damned desire to explore the dark inner recesses of our selves and society.
The 70 best albums of 2025 offer sublime music as major artists return with new work and brilliant new sounds bubble up from the underground and worldwide.
No year in the best hip-hop was as eclectic as 2015, representing various gender identities, sexualities, geographies, worldviews, and genre infusions.
PopMatters recently turned 25, and these memorable 1999 albums celebrate the popular music that defined the year of our birth, for better or worse.
Journey back 20 years, listen to the best albums of 2005, and hear the state of the art. It was an era of brilliant veterans and bold, new innovators.
Radiohead’s first musically important album, The Bends is 30. It’s where the group’s experimental inclinations initially took flight.
Jump back 20 years, listen to the best jazz albums of 2005, and hear the state of the art. It was an era of brilliant veterans and bold, new innovators.
