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

Winter transforms your car into something of a mobile freezer, and while that’s great for keeping your road trip snacks cold, ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

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

Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any ...

Death metal continues to thrive in 2025. With subgenres ranging from melodeath and technical death metal to deathcore, goregrind and beyond, it's a genre that continues to inspire and attract massive ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Daily Dirt for Friday, Dec. 26, 2025 Seriously, who didn’t love The Bangles? … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up ...