Music Reviews

Her latest single has a new sound (wistful '90s acoustic pop), and a new vibe (toughing out whatever NYC public transportation throws at you, from rats to trash to unexpected encounters with your ex).

Clinton is the leader of two important funk bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. In 1975, Parliament released Mothership Connection, a loose concept album about funk musicians as galactic invaders.

black british music (2025), the new project from multi-hyphenate Jim Legxacy, tells the story of a U.K. rap scene overspilling its borders as it rarely has before.

Moody made untold records over 63 years of recording, and really excelled as a live performer. 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note is a recording made on his 80th birthday in 2005.

The three-sister band HAIM and pop singer and TikTok star Addison Rae are practicing "emotional passive resistance" this summer — and it sounds great.

At its best, this capacious grab-bag of 83 songs, some dating back to the 1980s, yields not just good music, but songs that seem unlike anything else Springsteen has ever done.

NPR'S Andrew Limbong and Anamaria Sayre review the latest album from Karol G, Tropicoqueta.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Caryn Rose about the surprises and treasures in the new Bruce Springsteen box set release this week.

The pop star's fourth album, her first since 2021's polarizing Solar Power, finds the 28-year-old shedding the stoic self-possession that defined her early career.

Sabrina Carpenter's new song, "Manchild," shows that she's an artist who acts like more like a comic than a straightforward pop star.