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 ...

If we've got one big criticism about Luke Combs' new album, The Way I Am, it's that he doesn't need to sell us so hard that he's still his old self. The singer took some time off in 2025 to be with ...

Olivia Rodrigo is slowly revealing details about her upcoming third album, telling British Vogue in a new cover story that it’s full of “sad love songs.” The 23-year-old pop star’s follow-up to 2023’s ...

It's finally here! After what has felt like an actual eternity, Harry Styles' fourth studio album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally has finally arrived, and it's safe to say we won't be listening ...

Harry Styles’ fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, is officially out. With its arrival comes one very important question: Who, exactly, is Carla? In a recent Apple Music interview, ...

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 ...

"It's one of those things, once it takes off, it'll take off pretty fast." On Thursday (Jan. 29), Slash joined Loudwire Nights to dive into Guns N' Roses' two new songs, "Atlas" and Nothin'," and ...

Just in time for the weekend, Aldean released not one but three new songs from his Songs About Us album. They included “Her Favorite Color” and “What’s A Little Heartache.” And for the last song, ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

End-of-Year List Season continues with long-running British publication NME and their 50 Best Albums of 2025 list. Their picks have some of the records you’re seeing on a lot of lists (including their ...