Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

Philly indie singer/songwriter Abi Reimold has announced their first album in a decade, Picking Stones, due out on March 3. The first single is the gently soaring “Drinking Song.” “This piece has a ...

“I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot?” Kim Gordon is speaking to the subject of the second single from her upcoming solo album PLAY ME. “We’re the first ones whose ...

Bleachers are back with another new album. The band’s fifth studio LP, Everyone for Ten Minutes, is out May 22 via Dirty Hit. Their lead single, “You and Forever,” is out now along with an Alex ...

Ejae and Sombr chased the Grammys with new releases, and Peter Gabriel began unfurling his next album. By Jon Pareles Post-Grammy strategies are clicking into place, as winners and performers from the ...

Kid Rock headlined Turning Point USA's "All American Halftime Show" on Sunday, which was set up as a MAGA-alternative to Bad Bunny's halftime show at the Super Bowl. Performing on what looked like the ...

The pop hitmaker, who hasn’t released a new album in 10 years, sold the rights to her music to Primary Wave. By Ben Sisario Britney Spears, the queen of millennial-era bubble-gum pop, has sold her ...

For the first time since 2019’s “Cross You Out,” Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira have collaborated on a song together. It’s called “Eyes of the World,” and it appears on Charli’s new soundtrack for ...

There are some songs that get stuck in the TikTok hive mind. When they go viral, they swarm the app with covers and remakes, finding uses that stray far from their source material. They create a ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. Since then, she ...

As I’ve been discovering Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I’m loving the things that Nintendo packed into Update 3.0.0 alongside the rest of this whole package of relaxing cozy gameplay. However, one ...