The year 2025 was rich with new original music from New Jersey and here's a sample of the 13 best the state has to offer.

BLACKPINK's JENNIE won Best Female Artist at the 2025 APMAs with multi-winners including G-Dragon, Lay Zhang, Jackson Wang, ...

Electric Light Orchestra put together an impressive catalog of hits in their career. These five songs were their biggest hits ...

Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

When he sings, whether it’s singing as Hugh Jackman or Neil Diamond, there couldn’t be anybody better to do it.” ...

Alabama is one of the most influential bands in country music. We found four of their songs that everyone should know by ...

Camila, a 16-year-old high school student in Los Angeles, holds her phone out, screen facing up, playing a grainy video of ...

Rolling Stone ranks the best Afropop songs of the year featuring Adekunle Gold, Rema, Moily, Theodora, Tyla, Davido, Bien, ...

Our 2025 year-end gift to you is music discovery! Explore and enjoy these lists of favorite albums from the past year, courtesy of our KCBX DJs. You can explore these albums at our KCBX Spotify page ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

Welcome to the sound of public radio in 2025. Our list of the best 125 songs of the year was curated by more than 60 writers and DJs across the NPR Music Network, and runs the gamut of sounds, scenes ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best albums of 2025. As the opening track to their debut album, “Real Life” feels like ear’s way of saying “hello world.” It begins ...