As Black History Month meets Valentine’s Day each February, it’s the perfect time to celebrate Black artists whose music continues to define love playlists around the world. Beginning in the 1950s, ...

Concept albums are pretty hard to pull off, but some of the best, like Quadrophenia and The Wall, show they can be rock ...

Paste is the place to kick off each and every New Music Friday. We follow our regular roundups of the best new songs by ...

Let’s set the scene. You’re locked in a room for 48 hours. No phone. No sunlight. No distractions. Just one album playing on ...

From post-punk’s jagged edges to stadium rock’s final roar, 1979 was the year music’s old guard met its neon future ...

From psychedelic dreams to gritty roots-rock, 1968 was the year the counterculture exploded into its most diverse and daring ...

From grunge anthems to pop masterpieces, the 90s delivered some of music's most unforgettable hits. Join us as we count down our picks for the greatest songs from this iconic decade! From Nirvana's ...

But Fela Kuti will be the first African to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, albeit posthumously. The award was first ...

The Jazz Festival is bringing in some funk legends for this year's fest, scheduled for May on Bay Street. See the lineup.

In New Orleans after the Mardi Gras parades, you can hear Big Freedia, Galactic, Dumpstaphunk, Jon Cleary, John Boutte, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, John "Papa" Gros, Chris Thomas King and many others ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Al links up ...

Black music has always been more than sound. It documents history, reflects resistance, and shapes global culture. Across decades, certain albums did not just dominate charts; they shifted ...