Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but ...

Foreigner’s first album was launched at an opportune time. While punk rock was big news in 1977, the year’s biggest-selling ...

Taylor Swift is officially on the ballot for one of the most prestigious honors a songwriter can receive. The 35-year-old superstar has been nominated for the Songwriters Hall of Fame Class of 2026, ...

In his early career, Mick Jones tasted the high life as a backing musician for French superstar Johnny Hallyday, and enjoyed ...

On Saturday night in Los Angeles, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame welcomed its 2025 class of inductees. This year's lineup included Bad Company, Soundgarden, Cyndi Lauper, the White Stripes, Warren Zevon ...

There seems to be a pattern here. When the surviving members of Nirvana get back together for a semi-reunion (as they did at FireAid earlier in 2025), they only employ female singers as fill-ins for ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

Bad Omens continue to be one of metalcore’s emerging bands with “Specter” leading the way amongst some impressive 2025 ...

Variety's Hitmakers Top 25 songs of the year is here, with 'Ordinary' and 'Luther' leading the charge — see what other hits ...