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 ...

Violet Grohl will release her debut album, Be Sweet to Me, on May 29 via Auroura Records/Republic Records. The musician also shared a new single, “595,” along with a music video for the track, ...

Alex James on revisiting the music of Blur for the 'Britpop Classical tour', returning to Coachella, his love of The Stone ...

Holed up somewhere on Mulholland Drive, high above the Hollywood Bowl, Nick Hexum, Doug “SA” Martinez, Tim Mahoney, Aaron “P-Nut” Willis, and Chad Sexton—collectively known as 311—laid the demo for ...

Will this finally be Diane Warren’s year at the Oscars, when she goes up against “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters and “I Lied To You,” from Sinners? (Probably not).Host Robin Hilton is joined by New ...

The guitar riff is synonymous with rock music. And these iconic riffs by Tom Petty, Nirvana, and The Call continued the tradition in 1989.

On this week’s episode of the Five Songs You Must Hear, a bunch of California teenagers who sound like the next Nirvana, Mexican sisters who rock HARD, and more.

Nirvana's 1991 classic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was ranked No. 1 song of the '90s by Rolling Stone. The ranking should come ...