Lil Wayne's rise from scrappy New Orleanian underdog to one of rap's biggest stars (and easily one of its most talented) has been a slow one. Inducted to the Cash Money family while still a young teen ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the rise of TikTok-optimized tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that—a way of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The main theme from the original The Legend of Zelda game is incredible. It so perfectly ...

Expect to see selections from the established stars, the next wave of new talent, the up-and-comers and everyone else in between. If the song is fire enough to beat the competition, it'll take one of ...

Released on Halloween in 2006, Saturday Night Wrist was a pretty bold departure in sound, offering up heavier ambient, psychedelic, and art-rock textures. “Cherry Waves,” like the best Deftones songs, ...

University of Winchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Life is busy these days, so when you manage to get some well-earned free time, it’s important to use it wisely. You could, ...

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. Now almost 20 years after it ...

Billy Joel is one of the all-time great pop legends — the piano man who’s kept the world singing along for over fifty years and thousands of Saturday nights. He’s a songwriter with an attic full of ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...