Part 2 of our annual countdown of the top 50 local songs of 2025, featuring a range of artists from music legends to high ...

The December roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a ...

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

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

From Elvis Presley to AC/DC to Bob Dylan and beyond, a long list of rock stars have recorded Christmas songs over the years...but not all of those tracks went on to become classics. So what's the best ...

The last 12 months have screamed by like a speeding comet, but not before delivering a staggering payload of genuinely great rock'n'roll. From old-stagers to returning cult heroes to prog titans and ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

Second and third singles “Stateside” and “Illegal” are included among KTLA’s 50 best songs of 2025 for good reason. “Illegal” ...

Dunno about anyone else, but I have zero clue where this year has gone. I’m pretty sure I say words to that effect in this space every year, but I genuinely think that 2025 has whizzed by at the speed ...

End-of-Year List Season continues with long-running British publication NME and their 50 Best Albums of 2025 list. Their picks have some of the records you’re seeing on a lot of lists (including their ...

With this in mind, here are KTLA’s 50 best songs of 2025, an unranked list for which I began working on in October and have ...