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We picked the best album by some of the greatest dad rock bands of all time, ranging from Led Zeppelin in the 1970s to Shinedown in the 2000s.

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Below are the best post-grunge albums of each year during its peak, from 1993 to 2005. Post-grunge can be broken up into a couple of different waves, with the first taking place in the mid-'90s ...

Our staff-curated 25 Best Latin Albums of 2025 So Far list below highlights the albums that have not only impressed us the most but have also defined the first half of the year.

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Outspoken pop star Sabrina Carpenter has released an alternative "approved by God" album cover after sparking backlash with the provocative original.

Led Zeppelin 's album opening songs are as varied and interesting as the LPs that followed. Together, they provide a road map as the band quickly transcended their foundational influences to ...

Bruce Springsteen belongs as much to a literary tradition as a musical one. In the footsteps of writers like John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman and Flannery O’Connor, Springsteen set out to catalogue ...

A ranked look back at album opening songs from Genesis.