All the players who rocked our world, in the year of Oasis reunions, Black Sabbath farewells, and guitarists keeping their ...

Their debut album L ife Under The Gun was my top choice in 2023, and they’ve gotten even better at crafting energetic pop ...

Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Soundgarden introduced classic rock to a new generation of listeners in the 1990s.

The end of Stranger Things is upon us. While the show has given fans endless thrills and immense joy, there are some things ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Bad guys Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang add spark to James Cameron's third dazzling and surreal dispatch from Pandora, one that restates much of what's come before.

As vinyl sleeves grew into larger creative canvases, musicians in the 1970s increasingly turned to visionary photographers, ...

As you’d probably expect from such a fast-growing genre, there have been more than a few Metroidvanias that have been left in the proverbial dust by the gaming public. Even if the games themselves are ...

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

The question of what constitutes an EP did not go away in 2025. A certain artist who topped our EPs list several years ago ...

"End of You," the powerhouse collaboration between Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante is Loudwire's Best Metal Song of the Year. In an internet-breaking fashion, the generation-crossing and ...

Any chance we get to send Jess Ripper out to take photos of Avatar, we’ll usually take it. I always say you should try to write about or take photos of a subject you enjoy and she enjoys Avatar. You ...