Sixty years ago today, Jim Reeves was at the top of the country chart with an album that contained multiple career highlights.

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...

Any press is good press. Taylor Swift cheekily addressed her music critics after releasing her new “The Life of a Showgirl” album in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe Tuesday. “I welcome the ...

Taylor Swift hit a historic 4 million in sales in one week with the debut of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This marks the singer’s 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart ...

Rolling Stone’s list of “The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far” is out, and several K-pop songs made the cut! With the first quarter of the 21st century winding to a close, the American ...

Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...

"I didn't really have any ideas or hopes, I just knew I needed to do something on my own." Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this article. "That was just a personal ...

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy ...

A former client of mine, Nathan*, was a first-time CEO who had just delivered his company’s strongest quarter in years. Revenue was up, customers were happy, and ...

When The Life of a Showgirl dropped last week, Taylor Swift’s newest album quickly generated buzz for featuring some of the raunchiest lyrics she’s ever released. The song “Wood,” in particular, ...

“I went back into the studio with Max and Shellback to record acoustic/unplugged versions of a few of the ‘Showgirl’ songs with brand new vocals and production!” she wrote on Instagram. By McKinley ...