Kacey Musgraves. American Football. Tori Amos. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Jewly Hight from WPLN in Nashville about their favorite albums out Friday, May 1. Plus, a handful of NPR Music writers and critics offer personal picks in our lightning round.

Denver doom metallers announced a new album with an epic single, wild rockers dropped a raging record, and more from this month.

Among the Milwaukee artists with the best new songs, albums and EPs to check out this May: 414JungleBaby, Abby Jeanne, Holy Pinto, Maximiano and more.

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The Rolling Stones tease new music in mysterious social media post - The Instagram post featured a snippet from an unnamed song playing in the background

This month’s new music roundup could easily be called “sounds from the underground,” as bands from across the local alternative scene showed up and out during the first month of 2026, including a booze-filled party-thrash offering, hardcore heavy ...

K-pop group Nmixx released a single and music video for "Crescendo," a song from its forthcoming EP, "Heavy Serenade." The album releases May 11.

The singer-songwriter's new album brought in 60% of the vote. By Ashley Iasimone The Great Divide, the new album from Noah Kahan, tops this week’s fan-voted new music poll. Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (April 24) on Billboard,