Last year saw some great, dramatic, cinematic game soundtracks: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's, by Lorien Testard, won almost every award going, while Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell's Death Stranding 2 ...

Debut albums have been essential topics of discussion since Sun Records put out Elvis Presley back in 1956. Since then, some of the most cornerstone works in music occurred on debuts—be it The Doors, ...

Paste has been in existence since July 2002, but it’s taken 22 years for us to sit down and make a “Greatest Albums of All Time” list. Every reputable outlet has done this at some point or another; ...

For the past decade, Kacey Musgraves has been country music’s most daring traditionalist — a small-town realist who’s also a campy country-disco queen and a folkie who once wrote a song about smoking ...

The trajectory of Kacey Musgraves‘ career changed course when she released Golden Hour in 2018. What started as an album born from her own personal evolution and her love story with then-husband ...

A haunting folk relic from Japan, a mafia themed concept album, drum virtuoso hyper pop, and an occult radio play. Daryl Worthington finds there’s a host of fascinating stories in the tape world this ...

Do you even listen, bro? Without question, the dominant country music sound of the 2010s was that tatted-up, Monster Energy-fueled party barge of good times, tailgates, and hot chicks — the ...

Kacey Musgrave’s Golden Hour landed at No. 1 on our 2018 critic poll’s best albums list. Check out the poll here, and our thoughts on the album’s impact below. Last week, I was listening to “Slow Burn ...

“Lonely Weekend” is welcome addition to the canon of songs where the artist lists the days of the week in chronological order. But, more than standing up as a piece of music next to “Saturday Love” ...

Grady Smith is a country music writer who has written for Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian and Rolling Stone. He can be found on Twitter at @gradywsmith or on his YouTube channel. Kacey Musgraves is ...