Dec 25, 2025 By Mark Redfern (Senior Editor/Co-Publisher) Photography by Wendy Redfern (Lael Neale, Miki Berenyi, Pulp, Bartees Strange), Koury Angelo (Tunde Adebimpe), and Shervin Lainez (Wolf Alice) ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

Looking back on 2025, the general consensus seems to be that it was a helluva year—both globally and closer to home. Fires in Los Angeles, wars in Gaza and Ukraine, ICE raids, and the daily barrage of ...