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 ...

Sturgill Simpson’s political screed, Olivia Rodrigo’s Magnetic Fields cover and the Lunar New Year song burning up the charts in Vietnam. By Jon Pareles Sturgill Simpson scrambles even his own ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s the thing: When you walk through the history of pop-and-country double–No. 1s, and focus on the tiny handful of these hits ...

Bhooth Bangla’s new song, Tu Hi Disda, sung by Arijit Singh and Nikhita Gandhi, is set to release tomorrow. Ahead of its ...

“This album is probably about learning to live with your ghosts and trying to be alive in the present,” says Glenn Donaldson who is The Reds, Pinks & Purples. ”There’s a certain kind of big-sounding ...

T.I. has shared new music amid his back-and-forth with 50 Cent, declaring himself “the strongest for the longest” and among the “top three” in Atlanta. The track was first previewed alongside a photo ...

Harry Styles continues to reinvent himself, and on his fourth solo album he's showing off his "Season 2 Weight Loss." The singer recently discussed his latest release, Kiss All the Time. Disco, ...

As much as this music ties itself to the beauty of the physical world, it’s also enveloped by a thick fog. “A Car With No ...

A new Zimbabwean dancehall release is striking a chord with listeners, shedding light on the emotional toll of unresolved conflict in relationships and the pain of walking away too soon. Ras Tekken, ...

Before he dismantled Nepal’s political elite, Balendra Shah was destroying his opponents in underground rap battles. More than a decade ago, armed with a microphone and his signature sunglasses, he ...

The trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and producer from the Bronx helped shape the sound of salsa. By Ed Morales The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for ...

There are so many new shows this weekend that it’s going to be hard to find time to watch all of them. It’s a good problem to have, because there are rarely weeks that have such a stacked lineup ...