Kacey Musgraves. American Football. Tori Amos. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Jewly Hight from WPLN in Nashville about their favorite albums out Friday, May 1. Plus, a handful of NPR Music writers and critics offer personal picks in our lightning round.

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Keith Urban just announced his new yacht rock inspired album, and released a new single featuring Michael McDonald

After teasing it with endless social media posts, Alex Warren has finally dropped his new single, "Fine Place to Die." Like his hit "Ordinary," the song was inspired by his wife, Kouvr Annon Warren.

The Academy of Country Music, Prime Video and Dick Clark Productions unveiled a star-studded lineup of new performers for the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards. Blake Shelton, Carter Faith, Dan + Shay,

Noah Kahan. Kehlani. The return of Metric. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with DJ Llu from Vermont Public about their favorite albums out Friday, April 24. Plus, a handful of NPR Music writers and critics offer personal picks in our lightning round.

The track is the lead single from Madonna's upcoming album, Confessions II.

Peter Gabriel has released another new song, "Won't Stand Down," taken from his upcoming album o\i. In a statement to his email subscribers, Gabriel described the track as a song "to encourage some sort of activism" and that he initially wanted to write something for an organization called the Elders, founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007.

Is new music on the horizon from Morgan Wallen? It’s hard to imagine an artist having a better year than Morgan Wallen had in 2025. Riding the highs of his fourth studio album, I’m The Problem, the Tennessee native broke all sorts of records.

The Black Keys start May with "Peaches!, " an album of cover songs leading a new music releases batch that includes titles from Kacey Musgraves, Rita Wilson, Ernest, Les Claypool and Sean Lennon, Taj Mahal,