The New Zealanders' new recording combines live performances of Conchords classics with loose tracks that the duo has performed over the years but never officially released.

Today, following hints on social media, Jepsen has dropped two promising new singles with an album dropping sometime this spring.

Decked out in matching, cobalt blue outfits, the singer and her band had a clear vision: If you want to overcome the times, find strength in numbers.

Right on schedule, U.K. musician Rex Orange County makes a lovely, bittersweet proposition for going steady.

"Adore You" is a feat of airy house-pop, a masterclass in under-the-covers intimacy that feels enticing and familiar.

Ariana Grande's thank u, next shows a musical turning point for the young star. Grande's producers and songwriters share the studio stories that helped make the album.

Grande has transformed in the public eye, from a wunderkind with a mighty voice to a figure whose every move seems to redefine what pop stardom can look like. Here's how it happened.

"Super Cool" is breezy and silly, and about as much as you can ask for a superstar-caliber link-up for a kids' film.

"Capacity" is deliriously fun power-pop accompanied by a mini-heist film of a music video. The new album is out May 10.

A collaboration with Spotify and Art Camp, the visual for "A Pearl" is, at once, arresting and dizzying.

With cooperation from Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, Jackson will mine 55 hours of unreleased footage of the band in-studio.

The album's lead single "Younger" reads like a mini-epic, and ends on an unexpected, but wholly awesome saxophone outro — the sort of instrumental backing you'd want to commence a hero's journey.

'7 rings' spins Julie Andrews' original ode to appreciating the little things into a big-spending-as-therapy bop.

"All Over Now" has the stately, lovely feel of a classic Cranberries single, weighed down and made somber by O'Riordan's repetition of the titular refrain.

The life of Toto's "Africa" has perhaps reached its logical end with Max Siedentopf's absurdist art installation Toto Forever, which will play "Africa" in the Namib Desert "for all eternity."

The uber-viral children's song "Baby Shark" landed in the top 40 of the Billboard charts this week, years after it debuted on YouTube.

In her latest video, Lizzo takes cues from assorted bits of nostalgia — Jane Fonda workout tapes, Coming to America, QVC infomercials — and shades them with her singular, life-affirming zeal.

The NPR Music staff watched almost 5,000 videos during the Tiny Desk Contest. We highlight five Latinx artists that impressed us.

Don't mess with Lindsey Jordan.

If nothing else, "No Tears" eases Ariana Grande back into the public eye as a pop star without the weight of the Manchester tragedies breaking her.