Every June, the Paste Music crew tallies up the best albums of the year so far. It’s a great way to present our favorites to you, but also to each other. This list is a snapshot of our favorite LPs ...

Actor George Chakiris (“West Side Story”) is 93. Singer Betty Kelley of Martha and the Vandellas is 81. Drummer Kenney Jones (Small Faces, Faces, The Who) is 77. Actor Susan Ruttan (“L.A. Law”) is 77.

In the late ’90s, Anthony “Top” Tiffith built a studio in his Carson, California home. Not even the most ambitious person could have imagined what would follow. Within a decade, Top launched Top Dawg ...

Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium—when some truly believed the world would end—chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and world change.

The best ’70s albums capture a complex, tumultuous transitional moment in history, wedged between the hippie 1960s and the gleaming, new-wave ’80s, pioneering new approaches to music to survey an era ...

It's Friday, and in approximately one week the doors will slam shut on eligibility for the 68th annual Grammy Awards. For some (read: our host), this penultimate week proved to be a strategic scramble ...

A 19-year-old Labor Day tradition for Charleston is just around the corner. For almost two decades, the Lowcountry Jazz Festival has delivered some of the biggest soul-jazz and smooth-jazz performers ...

The music industry has gone through cycles. First it was vinyl, then cassettes and eight-tracks (ugh), CDs, and so on and so on. What goes around comes around and vinyl is back in fashion. The sound ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

From the return of pop's reigning kook to a sprawling love letter to Puerto Rico, here are our favorite records from the first half of the year. Jason Lamphier is a senior editor at Entertainment ...

As we hit the halfway mark of 2025, All About Jazz has adopted Major League Baseball's All-Star break approach but swapping homers for albums. Our team of 55 writers convened to name their top three ...

We love dad rock around here, so keep reading to see our picks for the best album by 11 of the greatest dad rock bands. There once was a time when the term "dad rock" referred to a specific era of ...