In a year with thousands of new songs, we've ranked 2025's Best Rock Songs of the year. Contributions by Chuck Armstrong (CA) ...

After a few years away, Justin Bieber made a strong return in 2025 with “Daisies,” a breezy, guitar-leaning single from his ...

Among thousands of new metal songs that came out in 2025, these 13 have been on maximum repeat.

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

Rolling Stone staffers pick their favorite albums of 2025, from Bad Bunny to Clipse to Rosalia to Taylor Swift to Wednesday to Geese to Lady Gaga ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

There were some fantastic music releases in 2025, and here are some of our favorites.

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped.

40. The Waterboys – The Life and Death of Dennis Hopper (Sun Records) ...

It was another banner year for country artists in 2025. In addition to Moroney and Langley, there was a new class of artists all of whom experienced their first major flushes of success, including ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...