The best Midwest emo albums of the 1990s were contained within the actual Midwest, for the most part. Fast forward to more recent years and we've seen bands from just about every corner of the U.S.

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The news that Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has recorded the biggest sales week for any album ever is an astonishing milestone in the annals of ...

Brian Ross Weitz, the Animal Collective musician better known as Geologist, has announced his debut solo studio album. The ...

The first four Danzig albums are being re-released on vinyl. This is the first vinyl reissue of the lps since their initial release, though bootlegs have abounded. The new ones are out via Universal ...

The rapper had previously announced a March 2026 release date. By Michael Saponara Nicki Minaj is threatening to cancel her plans for her sixth album — which she had set for next March — altogether.

Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. In the three decades since, only 25 albums have sold at least 1 million copies in one week. Taylor Swift has achieved ...

Try as they might, it still happens to the best of 'em. As much as we want every artist we love to be a constant source of the best music ever, sometimes there are experiments, overreaches and ...

In “Intemperance,” Seattle author Sonora Jha’s new novel, a twice-divorced professor announces she will celebrate her 55th birthday with a swayamvar. In this contest inspired by ancient Indian ...

Travis Kelce started the scoring for the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars, but NFL fans raised questions about the call on the field. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs ...

Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, and Eddie Van Halen in 1978. (Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns) “If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your ...

“I'm not the art police. It's like everybody is allowed to feel exactly how they want. And what our goal is as entertainers is to be a mirror,” Swift explained. By Lexy Perez Associate Editor While ...