Music albums, bands, musicians and songs featured and reviewed.
AllMusic Loves 2025
16 December 2025 @ 12:00 am
Our editors share a wide variety of their personal favorite albums of 2025, featuring some of the year's biggest releases and a wealth of lesser-heard gems.
Cast Your Vote in the AllMusic 2025 Readers' Poll
12 December 2025 @ 12:00 am
As we review our favorite albums of the year, we turn it over to you to vote in our annual readers' poll. Each of you has five votes to spend in our annual year-end poll, with a ballot built from our readership's best-rated albums of 2025.
The 2025 AllMusic Gift Guide
9 December 2025 @ 12:00 am
Each year, the AllMusic staff shares their hand-picked recommendations of books, accessories, gadgets, recordings and more, sure to please even the most discerning audiophile. And best of all, there's no waiting in line. Check out the AllMusic Gift Guide now!
AllMusic's Best of 2025
8 December 2025 @ 12:00 am
Each year, the AllMusic editors look back through the albums that made the biggest impact, broke new ground, and caught our ear. Pop, rap, jazz, blues, classical and more. We begin with our overall best-of list, and will explore a different genre each weekday until the new year.
For a Life of Sin: Rob Miller and the Making of Bloodshot Records
2 December 2025 @ 12:00 am
Bloodshot Records co-founder Rob Miller tells the story behind the "insurgent country" movement where punk rock met twang in his new book "The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music." AllMusic runs through the setlist and the backstage rider.
Late To the Party - Albums You Wish You'd Discovered Earlier
18 November 2025 @ 12:00 am
Sometimes an album can sneak up on you and become a part of the soundtrack of your life, even years later. We at AllMusic embrace these late discoveries and proudly (and in some cases abashedly) present some of our personal "late to the party" albums. Don't let them pass you by.
Could Ace Frehley Have Been a Stand-Up Comedian? Comic Don Jamieson States His Case
10 November 2025 @ 12:00 am
That Metal Show co-host and stand-up comedian Don Jamieson espouses on the opinion that the Kiss guitarist could have cut it as a comedian in this excerpt from Greg Prato's book, "Talk to Me: Conversations With Ace Frehley."
Classical Highlights for October 2025
5 November 2025 @ 12:00 am
A handful of noteworthy classical albums to sample: Alexander Gergelyfi plays a clavichord owned by Mozart himself in a recording that also features baritone Georg Nigl; Vox Clamantis once again sings music by Arvo Pärt (both pictured), this time to mark the composer's 90th birthday.
Setting the Stage for Alt-Rock's Early '90s Uprising
28 October 2025 @ 12:00 am
AllMusic presents an excerpt of Greg Prato's new book Alternative for the Masses: The '90s Alt-Rock Revolution - An Oral History in which Ian MacKaye, Fred Armisen, and Matt Pinfield (among many, many others) recall what the indie music scene was like pre-Nirvana, and the stepping stones that led us to late 1991 – when alt-rock seemingly exploded on a global scale.
Your Top 10 Albums and "Letterboxd for Music"
21 October 2025 @ 12:00 am
A question that sometimes has sent people our way over the years is "What is the Letterboxd for music?" and we've been working toward improving the AllMusic Profile experience with some of these same concepts in mind.