The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

The tracks include "Let’s Play Verandah Santa," "Verandah Santa" and "I Don’t Have a Chimney (feat. Emma Dean)," as well as ...

Featuring a videogame commercial song, a Janet Jackson interpolation, one beloved indie-rock guy covering another, and a ...

Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

Even as the amount of music made by both humans and AI exceeds what any listener could possibly consume, a few local artists ...

To revisit the Album-Oriented Rock era of the 1970s, revisit three rock songs from 1973 that helped shape this movement.

Queer artists have been defining music for years, and 2026 was no different. With legends like Lady Gaga, Cardi B, and Tyler, ...

Not Guilty, written in ’68 to debunk unfounded accusations thrown at the Maharishi by George’s fellow frontline Beatles, and ...

Despite some moments of weak lyricism, the strong start and finish of “Play” holds it together and makes the album a success.

The beauty of love songs, especially love songs in country music, is the feelings they evoke years, and sometimes even ...

Listening to “Fleetwood Mac” today feels less like stepping into a preserved past, engaging in an ongoing conversation about ...

If 2024 was the year of the breakout pop star—here’s looking at you, Charli, Chappell, and Sabrina—then 2025 in music was the ...