From pop provocations to sepia-tinted slow burns, this fortnight’s standout releases come steeped in confidence, craft and a sense of play.

Friendship opened in 6 locations to a stellar debut weekend of $451k and per theater average of $75.43k. That’s the highest ...

An acclaimed rock singer has another side project, and it’s “scary good.” Radiohead’s Thom Yorke released “Tall Tales,” a new experimental electronic album with Mark Pritchard, on Friday. The 12-track ...

Welcome to our weekly music post, where we spotlight our favorite new songs and albums. Hop in the comments and tell us: What ...

Thom Yorke has quietly been on a bit of a tear the last year or so. In 2024, his side project the Smile — with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and jazz drummer Tom Skinner — put out two dazzling ...

And last but never least, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.

Perhaps it was Zawada’s aesthetic — one that expresses a malformed, distorted version of its CGI influences — that aroused ...

The massively-prolific NYC rapper billy woods releases more music than the average person can probably keep up with, and he’s not really the type to drastically change up his style from one album to ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

We’re over here, sweating and shoveling coal into the old Caustic steam engine as we barrel into a fantastic New Music Friday with an open mind and full ...

Everybody, run, it looks like rain,” drawls Thom Yorke over the mechanised beat and lurid, tuba-aping synths of “Back in the ...

Just send me whatever you want.” Nearly a decade later they started work on Tall Tales. By then, Pritchard had released the ...