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 two decades, we have watched J. Cole grow from a hungry young artist dropping mixtapes in the blog era to one of the most commercially successful rappers on the planet. If you go back ...

For her final cover, the Donna Summer disco staple I Feel Love, Ellis-Bextor was met onstage by children’s entertainer Emma Memma, who ribbon-danced in all of her orange glory. It was the strangest ...