From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

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There have been 97 Oscar Best Picture winners, but classics like Titanic, Casablanca, and Parasite stand out as the most ...

Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, released the first week of 2025, set the tone for a year in which Latin music continued to ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

Clarice Jensen, In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness They said Sgt. Pepper's was a perfect album. Here's another one — and it's arguably more ambitious. That Rosalía sings in 13 languages ...

Country music has a long history and is one of the most popular genres in the United States. As a result, there are thousands of artists who have released millions of songs. A relatively small number ...

Each year at NPR Music, we curate two flagship lists: The Best Albums of the Year and The Best Songs of the Year. But there's a lot more recommendations and criticism where those came from. You'll ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. No one needs reminding that 2025 began in an L.A. aflame. Musicians didn’t escape the fires, especially in ...

Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical ...

If one year stands as the high-water mark for rock music’s creative diversity and ambition, 1972 makes a compelling case. It was a year when multiple genres hit full stride, and when legendary artists ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...