What were 2025's best rock albums? While we recently shared with you the 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025 with you and named Three Days Grace's Alienation our Rock Album of the Year, we have not ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

Yes, we define indie rock pretty broadly for this list. Four decades after bands like the Replacements, the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, and the Meat Puppets got this scene rolling, indie rock is more a ...

Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic ...

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Fresh entries into the tradition include releases by Luke Bryan, Tyra Banks and Old Crow Medicine Show. By Jon Caramanica Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You ...

Lately it seems like every year, when I look back on my favorite classical albums, I always think, "Well, let's face it: It's been a pretty cruel year, and this is the music that helped get me through ...

OLYPHANT — A fire-damaged apartment building on Lackawanna Avenue could have its first tenants by the summer following a complete overhaul. Nearly four years after a fire burned through parts of a ...

(RNS) — A century and a half after Phillips Brooks wrote this haunting carol, there is much once again to lament, fear and grieve. (RNS) — One Sunday morning, a pastor steps up to his pulpit and — ...

Edward Lear, “Bethlehem” (1861). Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Public domain. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” has shaped how millions of English speakers imagine the Palestinian town where Jesus was ...

O Little Town of Bethlehem became a success when its original lyrics were married with a folk song from Surrey [SolStock] First heard in a sleepy English hamlet, a simple folk tune grew into the ...

First heard in a sleepy English hamlet, a simple folk tune grew into the melody for one of the world's most cherished Christmas carols. O Little Town of Bethlehem began life as an American poem, ...