The Cure have won Best Alternative Music Album for Songs of a Lost World at the 2026 Grammys. They beat out the category’s other nominees Bon Iver (SABLE, fABLE), Hayley Williams (Ego Death at a ...

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 ...

Two New England Patriots fans who went viral with a song they wrote in honor of star quarterback Drake Maye said they have been blown away to see hundreds of thousands of people sharing the music they ...

Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it, but that won’t un-leak the music. Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it ...

The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of ...

English model and photographer Pattie Boyd was a pretty important figure in music in the late 20th century, namely for serving as the muse of some musical greats of the time. Let’s take a look at just ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

The 1970s were a diverse time for music. Seemingly every genre was operating at the top of its game. Countless incredible songs came out of the 1970s, including the top ten best-selling tracks below.

On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

Which artist defined 2025? Spotify is ready to submit its answer. Spotify Wrapped, the much-loved annual personalized music report, revealed the artists – both stateside and globally – who dominated ...