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 ...

The atmospheric weight of Sonic Youth’s influence on alternative rock is as dense as the feedback from one of their Fender ...

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has seen it all both onstage and in his experiences traveling the globe with Pearl Jam for the past 35-plus-years, but he’s about to tell a new story in an entirely ...

Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and Berklee College of Music professor Matthew Stevens is getting ready to roll out his new album — and it’s set to be the start of a new chapter for Stevens as he ...