A look at some of the most intriguing music released during the first six months of the year.

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Music critic Edna Gundersen shares her top albums for the first half of 2025. Did your favorite artist make the list?

The reframing of peaceful protest as uncontrolled rioting. Mass surveillance and rising disregard for due process and human rights. You don’t need to go to a galaxy far, far away or look back to a ...

The Texas Rangers have received exceptional performances from their bullpen as of late, and one in particular has been truly outstanding this season.

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Jess Walter’s searing and sublime eighth novel, “So Far Gone,” is a wistful elegy — some might say a eulogy — to a kinder, gentler time. Its compelling antihero, sixty-something Rhys ...

Features Best Albums of 2025 (So Far) Our collection of favorite music, six months in Written by SPIN Team | June 2, 2025 - 12:09 pm Luke Spiller of the Struts performs in 2024 in Milan, Italy.

I don’t envy anybody who decided to put out an album within the 12 months succeeding Brat Summer, Manning Fireworks Fall, and “Not Like Us” — especially considering that 2025, broadly ...

Art imitates life with deadly accuracy in Jess Walter’s “So Far Gone.” ...

Jess Walter, the New York Times bestselling author of "Beautiful Ruins," is back with a new novel, "So Far Gone" (to be published June 10 by HarperCollins). It's about Rhys Kinnick, a journalist ...