Sammy Hagar, Alter Bridge, Steve Cropper, Jim Steinman, Francis Rossi, Karnivool, Marcus King, Elles Bailey, Heavy Pettin and ...

Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

From Agriculture to Ancient Death, Paradise Lost to Pissgrave, Corpus Offal to Coroner, here are the best metal albums of ...

The 2020s are racing by and we’ve only got four years left.

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

The thrash metal giants from Deutschland are back with a new cut from their forthcoming album Krushers of the World titled “Satanic Anarchy”. And from the moment you hit play, it’s got all of the ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

Certificates of deposit (CDs) have been really hot the past few years -- mostly because rates have been unusually high. Some are still offering north of 4.00% APY, which feels like free money when you ...

German thrash metal monster Kreator is back with a new slate of tunes titled Krushers of the World that’s set to get released on January 16 via Nuclear Blast Records. To commemorate the album’s ...

CDs aren’t exactly cutting-edge in 2025. Since the peak years around the turn of the millennium, sales have plummeted because streaming services like Spotify have taken over. But there are still times ...

At Begyle Brewing on Sunday, June 8, the Chicago Independent Radio Project hosted its third CD Blowout Sale. CHIRP founder and general manager Shawn Campbell says the sale’s debut in May 2022 was a ...