James Blake. Kim Gordon. Sturgill Simpson's country-funk alter ego. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Amelia Mason from ...

From Alex Isley’s “Westside” to Thundercat's “ThunderWave,” here are the best new songs of the week, plus drops from YG and ...

Ayra Starr returns with “Where Do We Go,” while Omarion, Isaiah Falls, Ama and Brent Faiyaz lead this week’s best new music.

Bruno Mars. Mitski. Grief and celebration from Gorillaz. Robin Hilton welcomes Raina Douris from WXPN in Philadelphia to chat about their favorite albums out Friday, Feb. 27. Plus, a handful of NPR ...

Five years after becoming Africa's first Covid-era debt defaulter, Zambia is seeing a dramatic turnaround in fortunes as major powers vie for access to its vast reserves of copper. Surging demand from ...

Mispriced risk in African sovereign debt is costing the continent billions of dollars in additional debt-service payments and constraining critical economic growth, according to a Zambian Treasury ...

Critical minerals now account for 63% of portfolio contribution as the royalty company's pivot away from coal produces ...

On International Women's Day, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is calling on governments, communities and ...

New Orleans singer-songwriter Robin Barnes is currently putting the last touches to her first solo full-length album, "Louisiana Love," which dives into her family's history and the Louisiana ...

T he first voice you hear on Gorillaz’s ninth studio album, The Mountain, belongs to Dennis Hopper, talking softly over a buoyant rush of Indian instrumentation. Close listeners will recognize the ...

Sting joins the Argentine pop duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso on a track that recalls the Police, and Noah Kahan breaks into the Top 10 with his latest single. By Jon Pareles If Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show ...

Only a few of the excerpts include vocals, and even then, it’s limited to mostly ooh-ing or howling — although one of the links does feature the sound of frontman Dave Grohl repeatedly singing the ...