Pickup trucks are a staple of American car culture and consistently rank among the bestselling vehicles in the U.S. year after year. Offering a wide range of uses, pickup trucks can do just about ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Admittedly, we do get excited about MOJO’s essential review of the year each time December rolls around, but 2025 really has proved to be a vintage one when it comes to new releases. Alongside ...

Each year at NPR Music, we curate two flagship lists: The Best Albums of the Year and The Best Songs of the Year. But there's a lot more recommendations and criticism where those came from. You'll ...

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 ...

Abstract: Amharic stands as the second most widely spoken Semitic language globally, trailing only Arabic. As a result, it is a highly resourceful language for hardcopy-document collection, and ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Ethiopia has unveiled a strategic roadmap which aims to enable the country set up one of the leading digital payment networks on the continent in the next 10 years. The country’s national ...

It's Friday, and that means we've reached our final 2025 episode of New Music Friday. While most of the music internet has moved on to looking backward (including the latest episode of All Songs ...

A few weeks ago, we launched the Pitchfork 2025 Readers’ Poll. Thousands of readers voted on the best songs and albums of the half-decade, and here are the results. (Thanks for voting!) Compare your ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...