As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

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LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- California Resources Corporation (NYSE: CRC) (“CRC”) today closed its all-stock combination with Berry ...

Mid-size Kern County oil producer Berry Corp. became part of rival California Resources Corp. on Thursday, further consolidating local oil-field operations amid expectations that a challenging period ...

The top country albums of 2025 are so different from each other that it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they fall under the same umbrella genre. But there is one thing these ...

A majority of Berry Corp. shareholders voted Monday to approve the Kern County oil producer’s acquisition by a larger local rival, clearing the way for the $717 million deal to close as soon as ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen to run through 12 dazzling albums that stuck with ...

Before I share my list of favorite albums of 2025, I need to repeat my regular “year-end list” disclaimer. If you already know the drill, feel free to skip ahead. We all know this. Art isn’t a ...