MANILA – As the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country’s most trusted newspaper, reaches its 40th year, we take a look at some of the songs that have shaped Original Pilipino Music (OPM), and the ...
From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the genre ...
From front to back, Rivers of Nihil’s self-titled fifth collection is virtually immaculate, so choosing one song to honor ...
From j-hope, BLACKPINK and ATEEZ's Hot 100 hits to career-defining tracks from HWASA, DAY6, JENNIE, JUSTB, DAYOUNG, NMIXX and ...
The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...
From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and ...
Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...
The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...
Same song, different meanings! Join us as we explore covers that completely transformed the original intentions behind the music. From punk reworkings of classy standards to feminist anthems that were ...