These country albums are better if you listen to them all the way through. They are more than worth the time it takes to get ...

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 ...

Slayer terrified the PMRC, Janet Jackson seized control, and Genesis got weird on these albums that shaped a transformative year Beastie Boys in 1986. (Credit: Michel Delsol/Getty Images) From left: ...

The waiting is the hardest part, when it comes to some recording artists. And if a lot of them come through on their promises, threats or hints of delivering new material in 2026, it will be like a ...

Come what may, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban will always be there for each other ’til the end of time. Three months after the Moulin Rouge actress filed to legally end her 19-year marriage to the ...

Happy New Year! Having put 2025 to bed (check out our lists here) we’re anxious to see what 2026 brings us. Music-wise, at least. We put together this list of 94 albums that have already been ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are spending their first Christmas without each other, and it looks very different for both of them. Kidman was spotted on Christmas Eve in Sydney, Australia, looking ...

Keith Urban may have an obvious type. Sources close to the country singer are reporting that the “Somebody Like You” singer is dating someone new who might look like his ex-wife. A source told ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...