In years past, the winner of the Grammy’s best new artist category appeared clear-cut. Olivia Rodrigo broke the internet with ...

There’s something electric about watching a great music documentary. You get the backstage pass, the messy breakdowns, the triumph, and all those unguarded moments that remind you why music matters in ...

Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In October, it was announced that many of MTV’s subchannels in Europe and South America would be discontinued at the end of 2025. But the social ...

Until last fall, R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist El DeBarge hadn’t played a local show in decades. That changed when he opened for Charlie Wilson and Babyface at Leader Bank Pavilion in September ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “luther,” one of eight songs vying for Record of the Year at the 2026 Grammys, was originally set to be a mere interlude. This revelation is among several featured in a ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

Holiday songs from Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé are on the list for moderate- to high-intensity workouts Brian Anthony Hernandez joined PEOPLE as a writer-editor in 2023. He was ...