Frank Zappa might be linked to rock music today, but that was never his intention when he started playing guitar in the late 1950s.

The best rock ballads of all time are also some of the best ballads period, from "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to "Dust in the ...

Led by the Altadena folk-rock band Dawes, the benefit concert hosted by actor John C. Reilly also featured performances from ...

Emerging artists including After, Jalen Ngonda, Mon Rovîa, Karri, Violet Grohl, and Tyler Ballgame are poised to make their ...

When does one decade start and another begin? Of course, the easy and obvious answer is at the stroke of midnight New Year’s Eve on, say, 1979 going into 1980. But from a cultural perspective, it’s ...

If you’re human, you’ve probably hollered a curse word or two (or three) when barking your shin on a table edge or hitting your thumb with a hammer. Perhaps you’ve noticed that this seems to lessen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. None of the 10 most successful rock and alternative albums of 2025 ...

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 ...

Chrisean Rock addressed a public altercation at the Compton Parade after being jumped by several women and later said she plans to hold herself accountable. Chrisean Rock walked away unscathed and ...

The first big surprise this year was the nomination for Linkin Park’s comeback LP, From Zero. It’s their first record in seven years, the first since the death of of Chester Bennington, and the formal ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

In 2025, the best rock music radiated self-assurance. That sometimes meant staking a claim to micro-genre legacies, but just as often meant leaning hard into idiosyncrasies. This year’s best and ...