Hazel Cills
Editor, NPR Music
Hazel Cills is an editor at NPR Music and a regular contributor to All Songs Considered.
Hazel Cills Hazel Cills is an editor at NPR Music and a regular contributor to All Songs Considered.
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Tuesday
Fans at a New York City Target shop for Taylor Swift's album The Life of a Showgirl on its Oct. 3 release night. Valerie Terranova/Getty Images hide caption
Monday
Tuesday
Focusing on fragmented snapshots from Bieber's very publicly and personally litigated life, Swag was a much needed revamp for the artist. Now, fans of the Swag era have 44 songs in total to enjoy, because more music is better, right? Renell Medrano hide caption
Tuesday
Sudan Archives Yanran Xiong hide caption
Friday
Margo Price's new album, Hard Headed Woman, was inspired by Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris. Yana Yatsuk/Loma Vista hide caption
Tuesday
Tuesday
Each Disiniblud song vibrates with a sense of playfulness and otherworldly possibility, building up songs from tinkering, music box melodies into epic soundscapes, as if to suggest reality can become fantasy at any moment. hide caption
Monday
On Chappell Roan's new song "The Subway," she captures New York City's unique hardships with a broken heart. Ryan Lee Clemens hide caption
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Karol G Brianna Capozzi hide caption
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Tuesday
The FKA twigs cut "Room Of Fools" is on our shortlist of the year's best songs (so far). Jordan Hemingway hide caption
Friday
Lorde's fourth album, and first in four years, is titled Virgin. Thistle Brown/Republic Records hide caption
Tuesday
You know who doesn't take herself too seriously? Sabrina Carpenter. Amy Sussman/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
Brian Wilson in 1965 Michael Ochs Archives/Michael Ochs Archives hide caption
Tuesday
Little Simz's "Young," from her album Lotus is one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Thibaut Grevet hide caption
Friday
Taylor Swift in February 2025, at the 67th Grammy Awards. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for the Recording Academy hide caption
Tuesday
Tirzah's Devotion is one of our picks for a perfect Sunday morning album. Spike Lynch-Koch hide caption
Tuesday
Stereolab is back. Warp Records hide caption
Friday
"I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now," Springsteen says. "I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them." Al Pereira/WireImage hide caption
Bruce Springsteen to put out previously unreleased music in 'Lost Albums'
Tuesday
This week rapper Playboi Carti's MUSIC tops this week's Billboard 200. Scott Dudelson/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption
Chappell Roan goes 'country,' but will country radio embrace it?
Tuesday
Haim have a yet-to-be-announced album coming this spring. Lea Garn/Columbia hide caption
Saturday
The coronavirus pandemic reordered almost everything about the music industry, from touring to streaming, interrupting careers and stealing lives. Illustration by Jackie Lay. Photos by Frazer Harrison / Stephen Shugerman / Matt Winkelmeyer / Clive Brunskill / Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
On its sophomore album, Horsegirl strips its sound back to post-punk basics. Ruby Faye hide caption
