ElectroMatters: Best Electronic Music of January 2026
From rough ‘n’ ready techno to subtle drone, atmospheric footwork to striking synthpop, these are the best electronic records from the past month.
Lists
These lists highlight the best in music, film, books, television, and games.
7 French Noirs for Those Long Cold Winter Nights
The French were making their own postwar brand of dark, downbeat, terse, vivid, chic, and cynical criminal melodramas before anyone ever heard the term “French Noir”.
The 25 Best Space Disco Songs of 1976-1986
These 25 songs feature outer space on the dance floor, from the avant-garde to Star Wars commercialism and beyond.
The Best TV of 2025 You May Have Missed
These best TV shows you may have missed include a show that’s ludicrously funny, one filled with scattershot mayhem, one that’s brutal and macabre, and a surreal comedy.
The 15 Landmark Dance Tracks of 1991
These are 15 dance tracks–some pure, some nearer pop–that tell the story of what the form was up to in 1991.
The 20 Most Memorable Songs of 1991
So much remarkable music was released in 1991 that it’s difficult to choose just 20 memorable songs of 1991 without a few omissions.
10 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 1991
1991’s best hip-hop tracks lean more towards beats production than the era’s popular gangsta genre because hip-hop’s militancy reinvents itself every few years.
MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of December 2025
In December’s best metal, Martröd tap into fiery black-metal dissonance, Lychgate expand extreme-metal, and Rotten Sound show their grind quality.
To Save and Project 2026 Nails Cutting-Edge Film Restoration
To Save and Project’s 2026 offerings include an early talkie that rivals Alfred Hitchcock and an overall fascinating glimpse of film and real history.
The 80 Best Albums of 2025
The best albums of 2025 challenged orthodoxies, created new genres, and spanned a vast range of musical styles and traditions, while looking forward.
The Best Films of 2025
Like life itself in these times the visceral, the absurd, and the morbid all take their rightful place in our eclectic compilation of Best Films 2025.
The Best Books of 2025
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?