Ye (formerly Kanye West) has redefined rap in the 21st century while pushing the sonic boundaries as a trendsetter in what’s been accepted in hip-hop’s mainstream. With every blockbuster album release ...

Jeremy has more than 2500 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

The waiting is the hardest part, when it comes to some recording artists. And if a lot of them come through on their promises, threats or hints of delivering new material in 2026, it will be like a ...

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 ...

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 ...

I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this. I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the ...

Apple Music has officially revealed what it has deemed as the greatest album of all time. The music streaming service has finished sharing its list of the 100 best albums in history, by exclusively ...

In 2023, one album stood out as not just the biggest, but the most popular by a significant margin. Morgan Wallen scored the top title of the year in the U.S. with his latest full-length One Thing at ...

Taylor Swift is one of the most influential singers and songwriters of her era. Born in 1989, she released her first album in 2006 and toured with country acts, then gradually shifted to pop music.

The punk world of 2023 was vast, diverse, and constantly rewarding. It was a year that saw "fifth wave emo" and the open-minded new generation of hardcore both continuing to leave their marks, with ...

If one thread connects the best albums from this year, it’s honesty: No matter their genre, artists confronting the world head-on and telling the truth about what they saw made the most satisfying ...