This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

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What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

The question of what constitutes an EP did not go away in 2025. A certain artist who topped our EPs list several years ago ...

Nick León speaks with Pitchfork's Mano Sundaresan from Pitchfork Music Festival London about a busy 2025, his breakout solo ...

Too often movie trailers are just a mini-version of the film, giving everything important away, but the ones on this list prove they can still be a work of art.

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

The final act of David Bowie might have been his most audacious; the baffling flourish of a great magician vanishing before our eyes, never to reappear, leaving us with a sense of awe and a mystery ...