The tenacious punk storm IRKED are here with their debut album The Grievance, and it certainly won’t disappoint their many ...

Radiohead killed the lucrativeness of rock music with the release of their 2007 album, but was it an act of genius or ...

If an eye toward trends prevents a full immersion into folk tradition, how popular can folk music truly become?

One of the music industry’s great mysteries is the fact that British boogie-rockers Status Quo never broke the United States. They had the songs, they had charismatic characters and, contrary to ...

From the birth of the electric riff to the digital revolution, these 37 records redefined the boundaries of modern sound ...

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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 ...

Over the past decade, several overlapping indie-rock scenes in the U.K. have produced bands that have achieved local popularity thanks to their consistently high-quality music, yet have had only mixed ...

The Brooklyn arts collective joined a growing number of artists this year who pulled albums from Spotify as disdain mounts for the company’s payouts and practices. They sent listeners on a quest to ...

There’s something seductively audacious about the concept album. While most records aim simply to collect a dozen good songs, the concept album goes further – weaving tracks together with a narrative ...