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 latest outing as Johnny Blue Skies leads this week's batch of new music releases, joining titles from the Jonas Brothers, Jack Harlow, the Black Crowes, Lamb of God, Foy Vance, ...

Kim Gordon could not be serious. Yet not only was she not kidding, she had taken a concept that sounded like a punchline and turned it into a project as vital as it was vexing. The Sonic Youth ...

Genevieve Chenneour, Ola Rapace, Lewis Jamison, Kathryn Lincoln and Anna Wilson-Jones will lead Martin Law's psychosexual ...