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 ...

The British singer’s second album is all curated melancholy and aestheticized heartache, winding its way through jazz, orchestral pop, and R&B with melodramatic flair. There’s a reason behind this ...

Olivia Rodrigo has officially joined the line of pop girlies who have found a muse in HBO’s Sex and the City, and with its current revival among Gen Z, who can even blame her? The Grammy winner ...

TikTok will soon let you stream full songs in its app via a new integration with Apple Music. The company's new Play Full Song feature makes it possible to link your Apple Music account toTikTok, and ...

TikTok has partnered with Apple Music to allow subscribers of the streaming service to play full songs without leaving its social network, the company announced on Wednesday. Apple Music subscribers ...

A legendary rock band surprised fans with new music, promising more to come this year. U2 dropped “Days of Ash” on Wednesday, a.k.a. Ash Wednesday, featuring five new songs including a collaboration ...

It’s been a couple of weeks since Dave Grohl told a Tasmanian crowd that the Foo Fighters had recorded new music (saying specifically, “We might have a whole new record of fucking songs that we just ...

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

The Cure have won Best Alternative Music Album for Songs of a Lost World at the 2026 Grammys. They beat out the category’s other nominees Bon Iver (SABLE, fABLE), Hayley Williams (Ego Death at a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I report on media as well as its intersection with news and culture. The AI audio company on Wednesday dropped a full-length AI ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Recent works by Gabriela Ortiz, choral music by David Lang and unreleased recordings by Radu Lupu are among our selections. Los Angeles Philharmonic; ...