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 ...

In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...

Hailing from London with deep Nigerian roots, 9DAYS just smacked me over the head with one of the most incredible debut albums I’ve heard in a while, with a blend of styles that work so beautifully ...

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

The star’s urgent and to-the-point protest song is not subtle about its target and right now that’s why it works so well Bruce Springsteen’s new protest song isn’t open to interpretation. In Streets ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Song of the ...

The Union Home Ministry has issued detailed guidelines mandating that all six stanzas of the National Song Vande Mataram, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, must be sung first whenever the ...

As the superstar K-pop boyband prepare for their first album in three years – after its members completed their military service – we count down the best of their toothsome pop At the start of their ...

Private companies added just 22,000 positions for January. The total was less than the downwardly revised 37,000 increase in December and below the consensus forecast for 45,000. The report starts ...

The Train singer shared insight into how the song came to be, 25 years after it came out ...

The government’s official January jobs and inflation figures will land next week after a short delay caused by the recent partial-government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday.

New York City just had its safest January on record — with the number of shootings and murders plummeting to new lows, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday. The number of homicides plunged 60 ...