MIKE put out two spectacular and distinct albums in 2025. Pinball II, which is he and producer Tony Seltzer’s second collab ...

PROG/ORCHESTRAL Somni by Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest; GroundUP Music. When New York-based virtuoso collective Snarky Puppy toured Australia in May, it brought the “slimline ...

On Dec. 13 at The Hybrid Gallery, Eugene’s Natsukashii Soul plays selections from Silvereen, the pop, jazz and soul quintet’s debut album, set to be released the same day as their performance and ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are “Midwinter Revels,” the “Solstice” light experience, ...

The sounds of the holidays are every bit as festive as the sights — and the 2025 lineup of seasonal concerts has something ...

Next Thursday, Dec. 18, Paso Robles-based vocalist and pianist Dawn Lambeth will be joining The Robert Alberts Quintet for an evening of jazz standards, swing, cha-chas, and bossa novas at the Madonna ...

Rock and blues outfit The Vibrafonics play the Cinema Bar this week, so band member Craig Zund told the News about what they have in store for Culver City… When did you start playing and performing?

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

Composer Max Richter turned to Elizabethan-era instruments and a women’s choir to help find “Hamnet’s” emotional tone.

Rosalía's LUX is NPR Music's No. 1 album of 2025. At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks ...

NPR Music's classical critic shares his favorite records of the year, spanning a wide range of genres, from experimental folk ...

The editorial director of WRTI in Philadelphia shares his favorite albums of the year, including a "thinking person's thrill ...