December 3, 1948 – July 22, 2025 English singer (Black Sabbath), songwriter ("Paranoid," "Crazy Train," "Mama, I'm Coming Home"), television personality ('The Osbournes'), and heavy metal icon Notable ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Follow ...

Welcome to the sound of public radio in 2025. Our list of the best 125 songs of the year was curated by more than 60 writers and DJs across the NPR Music Network, and runs the gamut of sounds, scenes ...

Some secrets are best unkept. Dean Johnson, a soft-spoken, 52-year-old songwriter often seen sporting a thick mustache, fisherman beanie, and a haircut your grandfather probably had in 1977, was an ...

Another summer is nearing its end, giving us all good reason to have deep, existential debates about the vaunted “Song of the Summer.” We can think about the music that wafted out of cars, that ...

It was an epic undertaking. Last November, the Autry Museum of the American West relocated hundreds of thousands of objects from the Southwest Museum of the American Indian (with which it had merged ...

Speaking to Baby Rose is a truly magnetic experience. Even through the screen, her smoky voice and full-bodied laugh are warm and genuine; she conveys a sense of being so full of the joys of life that ...

“There is no great genius without a touch of madness.” Greek philosopher Aristotle made this observation roughly 2,300 years ago, long before legit geniuses like Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Carole King, ...

In hindsight, it feels like we eventually took Sonic Youth a bit for granted. By the time of the band’s implosion following the very public divorce of bassist Kim Gordon and guitarist Thurston Moore ...

Many albums released in 2021 were pandemic records. Some were recorded in isolation; others were slated for earlier release, shelved, then put out into the world belatedly; a lot of them simply seemed ...

Canadian power-pop supergroup The New Pornographers are on the road as we speak, celebrating anniversaries of two of their classic albums—the 21st of their bracing 2000 debut Mass Romantic and the ...

If there's been one consistent in popular music across the first 20-plus years of the 21st century, it's been the prominence of the producer at the forefront. By Billboard Staff If there’s been one ...