Def Leppard has released a high-voltage new song titled "Rejoice." You can listen to it below. The standalone single is being released to celebrate the band's upcoming Las Vegas residency, which kicks ...

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 you’ve already played out all the best albums of 2025 and you’re ready to put your music listening habits in 2026 mode, you’re in luck because this year is already musically off to a good start. We ...

Mandy, Indiana’s anticipated new album URGH is out in February, and they’ve given us a second preview with “Cursive.” “‘Cursive’ is probably our most collaborative track to-date,” synth player Simon ...

The Robert Burns poem set to song remains popular almost 250 years after he wrote it down Moviestore/Shutterstock "Auld Lang Syne" plays during New Year's celebrations around the world The iconic song ...

Millions of people sing it each year at the stroke of midnight, some beaming with joy and others overcome with emotion as they bid goodbye to the year that has passed. But what does the New Year’s ...

Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: A song she’d recorded in 1962 — the year of the Cuban missile crisis — was ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Guns N' Roses have shared two new songs, "Nothin'" and "Atlas." These are the fifth and sixth tracks the rockers have released since Slash and Duff McKagan returned to the lineup in 2016 following ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

These love songs — Neko Case's "Oh, Neglect...," Valerie June's "Runnin' and Searchin'" and Olivia Dean's "Man I Need" — each express a refreshingly realistic ambivalence toward romance. This is FRESH ...

Kelsea Ballerini’s new viral song, "I Sit in Parks," is haunting. It’s not another breakup anthem or empowerment track. It’s a confession — an elegy for something missing, something she only realized ...