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Our music team dipped into their deep well of knowledge (and listening experience) to pull out their top 10 albums of 2025.

Drake, GloRilla, Lil Baby, Young Nudy and Latto join the Slaughter Gang boss on his fourth studio LP.

In a year when hip-hop was frequently absent from the pop charts, NPR's music critic found that looking in darker corners ...

It's Friday, it's mid-November, and the weekly deluge of new albums felt like it was finally starting to slow down as we approach the holidays — until we looked at our Nov. 14 list of LPs, EPs, ...

Though impressive in its own right, the list of Record Store Day's Black Friday releases has never been as sweeping as the annual main event. It wasn't designed to be. "There are fewer titles on the ...

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Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...