Every year, WMNF 88.5 FM’s listeners and DJs come together, intentionally or not, to create a musical portrait of the moment we’re living in. The station’s Top 10 Songs of 2025 reflect a year filled ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

As DEI battles and funding shifts roil campuses, music programs from UCLA to Juilliard continue to grow. THR ranks the 20 schools shaping the next generation of composers. By Jeff Bond Conservatories ...

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 ...

The Melon Music Awards (MMA) 2025 has announced this year’s Top 10 artists! The first round of voting for the upcoming award ceremony took place from November 20 to December 4, with Melon users ...

In the age of streaming, reissues are literally a volume business. Of 2025’s 10 best archival collections and anniversary editions, five box sets, in their super-deluxe iterations, have 37 CDs among ...