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Six years after Punisher, Bridgers returns with an album that treats memory as something recording technology can manipulate — her late father's voicemail woven into an arrangement, her own voice run through the same machines, and a surprising debt to a 1988 computer-music composition.
NPR's Starting 5 for August 21: Jorja Smith's What Are The Odds, Brandon Flowers' THRASHER, Squirrel Flower's Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, Westside Cowboy's It Goes On, and a self-titled debut from Brennan Wedl. The lightning round adds Rapsody, Julia Holter, Elanor Moss, OK Cowgirl and a posthumous Cramps collection. Host Stephen Thompson is joined by Celia Gregory of WNXP Nashville.
Sixty years ago the biggest band on Earth played a half-empty stadium and never performed again. No farewell, no reunion, no tour — and it made them permanent. The screaming, the death threats, the cracks already forming, and how close John and Paul came to walking back on stage for $3,000.
NPR's New Music Friday calls this one of the deeper release days of the summer. Bridgers returns with Lost Weekend on Dead Oceans, alongside Jungle's Sunshine, Hovvdy's Big World, Sweeping Promises' You Say I Romanticize and L'Rain's fata morgana. The lightning round adds Channel Tres, Ayra Starr and an Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal collaboration — a reminder that August, usually the industry's dead zone, is no longer treated as one.
Out August 7, the 14-track follow-up to Tropicoqueta swaps that album's brightness for something moodier and more interior — a record she says grew out of solo hikes in the Hawaiian mountains and what they taught her about isolation inside the music industry. Drake and Bruno Mars appear, as does Cigarettes After Sex's Greg Gonzalez.
A company built entirely on asking people to put their phones away has quietly become one of live music's most in-demand vendors — and artists from Jack White to Karol G are lining up.
The pop star's post-Brat pivot toward indie-sleaze guitars dropped July 24 to a 5-star Guardian review and Pitchfork's Best New Music tag — the marquee release of that week's New Music Friday.
FIFA reveals the July 19 pre-match lineup at MetLife Stadium — Jennifer Hudson's anthem, Nicole Scherzinger, Laura Pausini, Robbie Williams, IShowSpeed, and a Tom Cruise cameo — alongside the previously announced halftime show curated by Coldplay's Chris Martin.
Featuring Pharrell, Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, and record-breaking ticket sales — Jay-Z celebrates 30 years of Reasonable Doubt and 25 years of The Blueprint across a three-night Bronx residency.
From heartbreak anthem to artistic renaissance—Cyrus proves she's nobody's ex anymore.