Play a guitar? With a towel?! Danny Gatton could do that and so much more, and his talent remains underrated today.

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Featuring Pulp, Suede, Saint Etienne, Stereolab, The Charlatans, Richard Ashcroft, Paul Weller, Gruff Rhys, The Divine Comedy ...

I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

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Tough as it is to define “emo” in 2025, “overlooked” feels like a much bigger challenge.

Rob Sheffield's favorite albums of 2025 came from Wednesday, Lifeguard, Taylor Swift, Geese, Clipse, Addison Rae, Rosalia, Billy Wwods, and many more ...

Wow. To say that 2025 was a banner year for albums released by Vermont-based artists would be a serious understatement — and that’s not even counting the likes of Neko ...

You'll see a few veteran heavy hitters on this list, including Testament (whose latest offering, Para Bellum, was named ...

Welcome to the newsletter’s first end-of-year quiz. Test yourself on culture, technology and assorted political chaos – and check back on 26 December to see how you fared ...

From the right number of French prime ministers to the pasttimes of Archie Bland’s dog – here are answers to our inaugural Christmas Day quiz.