Clipse, Mavis Staples, Hayley Williams and Geese are among the nominees for the 2026 Libera Awards. Here's the full nominations list.

The decaf dance-pop on Harry Styles’ fourth album is just unremarkable. Even songs about the emptiness of pop stardom succumb to tasteful restraint. Kiss All the Time was inspired by LCD Soundsystem, ...

BLACKPINK has just scored their third consecutive top 10 entry on the Billboard 200! On March 8 local time, Billboard announced that BLACKPINK’s new album “DEADLINE” had debuted at No. 8 on its famous ...

Soft rock is often unfairly dismissed as 'dentist office music', but at its peak between 1970 and 1982, it represented the absolute pinnacle of studio craft and melodic sophistication. Emerging from ...

We all have a favorite album that we can listen to from start to finish with zero skips. That type of listening experience is unlike any other, and it takes a special artist/band to pull off that ...

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 ...

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 ...