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 ...

In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roo, the leading veterinary relief platform, today announced the official launch of Roo Uni – the industry’s first and only centralized platform where vet students can ...

Roo Code is a kind of agentic mediary for your AI engine. It uses the contents of your app and the resulting outputs, along with your prompts, to send requests to the AI engine, then applies your ...

Roo's Kitchen, a new multi-use kitchen and events space on the north side, aims to build community and provide culinary professionals with the space to develop ideas. The business is taking shape at ...

Have you ever had a brilliant app idea but felt held back by the daunting world of coding? For many, the thought of diving into complex programming languages or hiring expensive developers can feel ...