For our 2025 music preview at The A.V. Club, we decided to focus most heavily on albums with confirmed releases. There are a ...

but The Magic of Christmas is the only holiday album that he put together in his lifetime, which makes it all the more special. —S.K. While there's plenty of raucous music out there for rocking ...

OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman’s “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc ... This year, no album was as ...