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 ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

An architect of Memphis soul, Cropper made his guitar sing and sting. And as a songwriter, he collaborated on more than a few indelible anthems. By Jon Pareles Terse, taut and intrinsically bluesy — ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. — The Beaverton community gathered at Southridge High School on a rainy Black Friday morning in support of Paulino Martin, an undocumented father of three who was detained by U.S.

Jimmy Cliff helped introduce reggae to international audiences through film, covers, and label partnerships. Songs like “Vietnam” and “The Harder They Come” connected music to global protest movements ...

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When news broke that Toni Braxton’s “He Wasn’t Man Enough” was getting the film treatment for Lifetime, it reminded fans that some songs don’t just belong on playlists, but they belong in theaters, ...

We are about to get served new music just in time for the December season! Ampiano popular vocalist Thatohatsi teamed up with the hip hop star Tony Dayimane on a fresh, new and upcoming single, 9 ...

If you’ve got Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande on repeat, add these songs from “Rent,” “Hadestown,” “13” and more to the rotation. By Nancy Coleman Nancy Coleman here. I’m a print editor at The Times, ...

Here are the most psychedelic-sounding songs by different grunge bands. All of them experimented with different sounds though and thus many of them put out at least one song with a psychedelic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the first round on competition on Tuesday night, each of the remaining seven couples will showcase a new style to a song ...