Eight years ago today, a songwriter and author who was instrumental in the formation of modern Americana died.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter and Dayton native Troy Campbell — co-founder of alt-country band Loose Diamonds (briefly known early on as The Highwaymen) — is reissuing his landmark second solo record, ...

Reggie Young, a foundational session musician behind The Highwaymen and Elvis Presley, was born on December 12, 1936.

Conway The Machine releases the cinematic “BMG” video from his new album You Can’t Kill God With Bullets, marking a new prime ...

Mike Jones a local underground rapper signs autographs while promoting his first CD at the Music Depot store in Greenspoint ...

Time was you couldn’t go a day without hearing about the electronic-leaning English art-rock band alt-J, but they’ve kept ...

Willowtip Records / Reigning Phoenix Music / Season of Mist / Inside Out Music / Napalm Records Which progressive metal records blew us away the most over the last dozen or so months, you might ask?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...