Welcome to this week's New Music Friday, your one place to discover the biggest new song and album releases.  Let's get ...

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 ...

The 2025 ARIA Award Nominations have dropped, and to put it shortly, it looks like homegrown talent Ninajirachi has the Aussie music world in a gorilla grip, copping a total of eight nominations for ...

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 ...

Ed Sheeran, the Weeknd and Drake are just a few of the artists topping Apple Music‘s Top 500 Streamed Songs list, honoring 10 years of the streaming service. Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the ...

Afrobeats star Lil Kesh has revealed that his breakout hit “Efejoku” was nearly given away to producer Young Jonn because he initially didn’t recognise the song’s full potential. Speaking on the ...

Every June, the Paste Music crew tallies up the best songs of the year so far. It’s a great way to present our favorites to you, but also to each other. This list is a snapshot of our favorite tracks ...

Last year around this time, Drake and Kendrick Lamar trading lyrical uppercuts was the biggest event in music. This year? We got Joey Badass vs. Ray Vaughn. Which is to say: as we approach the halfway ...

Lil Wayne launched Tha Carter VI Tour on Friday, June 6, with a sold-out show at New York City's Madison Square Garden that found him joined by LL Cool J on a cover of the hip-hop legend's "Rock the ...