The good news for the common listener is that as far as albums with librettos go, this one is surprisingly easy to bang your way through — sort of like a Guided by Voices LP expanded to The Lamb Lies ...

David Benavidez made easy work of Anthony Yarde on Saturday to retain his WBC and WBA "regular" light heavyweight titles and then announced his plan to challenge WBO and WBA cruiserweight champion ...

The all-star collective's new album, The Great Lakes Suite, also features Laurie Anderson and the late Gord Downie. By Gary Graff Thirty years ago, Toronto’s Rheostatics went high-concept with Music ...

David Benavidez says he will move up to cruiserweight next May to challenge Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez for the WBO cruiserweight title. Benavidez announced the plan after his win over Anthony Yarde in ...

Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

"The Monster" proved to be far too much for "The Beast." David Benavidez pummeled Anthony Yarde for a seventh-round TKO win in their DAZN pay-per-view main event Saturday evening in Riyadh, Saudi ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Jai Opetaia and his team have taken the big stick to Mexican superstar Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez – which includes urging him to “grow some balls” – following suggestions the fellow cruiserweight ...