One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

Lady Gaga, Olivia Dean and Lily Allen are responsible for some of the past year's most talked-about new releases.

The overall sound is huge and the energy exuberant, with Petunia's band, at the time of the recording, coming off a years-long residency at the WISE Lounge, singing songs that had been workshopped and ...

Cheyenne Jackson is engaged! "Cheyenne Jackson and entrepreneur Jason Landau are pleased to happily confirm that they are ...

A winter wind blows through the lonely friction sounds. On a rainy day, a pale tree sways there. It must be evening. Singer ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Stephen Sondheim's musical has been adapted into a film starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez with ...

Here is the third part of our playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland. It marks eleventh year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Including Britpop classics, punk rarities, a different side of Nick Drake, an over-the-top Big '80s masterpiece, '90s ambient ...