This year’s outstanding tracks – from post-punk rap to indie-disco and operatic pop – as voted for by 30 Guardian music writers ...

Billboard highlights several new holiday songs across country, Americana, bluegrass and Contemporary Christian music.

To go with their 2025 album, Smerz invited Astrid Sonne, Erika de Casier, Fine, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Elias Rønnenfelt, ML Buch, Clarissa Connelly, Clairo and more to reinterpret its songs ...