I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

Just like that, 2025 has come to a close. It has been another year of brilliant music: lets be honest, it's hard to have a ...

Jazz versions of holiday classics can bring up these feelings even with no singer, though perhaps start with Ella Fitzgerald’s classic album “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.” Other sweet as ...

(And a special shout-out to Pretty Bitter’s Pleaser, where D.C.’s premier indie pop band belt their way through a catchy and colorful reckoning with all the sadness and death that follows in the wake ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

It will be A Very Harlequin Christmas for Lady Gaga fans. The singer is announcing today that her long-awaited concert film ...

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

Judas Priest, one of the seemingly few mainstream bands that embraced the “heavy metal” label, epitomised the driving, ...

As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s ...

This year has been noteworthy for me. For perspective, when I started at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decades ago, we had a ...

The guitar great has shared his displeasure after learning multiple former singers are using their association to promote ...