One of our favorite things here at Paste—indeed one of the reasons we started Paste Magazine 20 years ago—is to new artists find an audience and to help our audience discover great new music. We hope ...

This marks the 20th time Paste has released a Best Albums of the Year list, and as always, it’s an opportunity for discovery. It’s a time to learn what albums we might have overlooked as our music ...

My pandemic soundtracks came to revolve around what I call “sad bangers.” More plainly put, songs whose lyrics of grief, anxiety, yearning or some other mild or great darkness are washed over with an ...