Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, has arrived. The Life of a Showgirl, which marks Swift’s first major project after she completed the mammoth Eras stadium tour, has 12 songs, ...

Debut albums are both some of the most highly praised and underrated types of albums. Highly praised, given that the artist who made them created an enormous splash in the business with their release.

No one would have expected Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” to lose its grip on the album chart in week 2, and it indeed held on at the top of the Billboard 200, with 338,000 equivalent album ...

Hayley Williams says 'Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party' will likely be the last album she puts out under her name: "I want to be in 100 bands before I die. That's more the speed I work best in." ...

Childhood friends Ben Bridwell and Sam Beam used to share mixtapes of their favorite songs. Now they've made a cover album together, "Making Good Time." They talk to NPR's Scott Simon. What do ...

We do these anniversary album retrospectives just about every week. Sometimes we have to reach a little deeper to find a fourth or fifth album that stands the test of time. But that’s certainly not ...

Nicki Minaj took to X early Wednesday morning to let her fans, and Jay-Z in particular, know that she is pulling a forthcoming album. The rapper – who hasn’t released a record with or is known to have ...

Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...

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As her album "The Life of a Showgirl" continues to top the charts, Taylor Swift is back at Arrowhead Stadium to watch her fiancé, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Detroit Lions.

As Wednesday, one of the more exciting rock bands to emerge in the 2020s, entered their latest album, the band was surrounded by a whole lot of noise. With guitarist MJ Lenderman’s solo career ...