Los Angeles has always been more than just palm trees and Hollywood glitz — it’s the heartbeat of West Coast Hip Hop. The ...

Mohit Chauhan, celebrated for his commitment to melody and authenticity, recently completed 25 years in the music industry.

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The album opened with the title track, which started it all off in a major way. “Breakaway” is about the speaker leaving her small town and tough home life for Hollywood and the music industry.

She declared, this “ain’t a Country album” but “a ‘Beyoncé’ album” — positioning herself in opposition to the genre’s rigid power structures. And yet, she made the year’s best ...

Billboard declared Beyoncé the greatest pop star of the 21st century, ranking her above Taylor Swift, Drake and others.

This year was one big stress test that presented artists with a choice: Face uncomfortable realities or serve distractions to the audience. Pop music turned inward and looked backward while hip ...

6," in which Kendrick fondly remembers coming up with fellow TDE rappers Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and ScHoolboy Q before explaining he left the label on good terms. To close the album out, he brings it all ...

Think of all the drugs you haven’t tried yet. Your life has only just begun. Such is the spirit of Brat, an album that argues that messy, melodramatic existentialism is inevitable, but so is the ...

Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of ...

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One, from more than a decade ago, catches my eye: “Charli XCX 16.04.13.” Banquet is the unofficial kingmaker of the UK album chart. Forty per cent of artists who have secured the top album in 2024 ...