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When listening to albums on Spotify, there was a shuffle button to mix up the order. …Read the full story

Previously, pressing the play button for an album on Spotify auto-shuffled songs rather than playing them in the order an artist intended. “As Adele mentioned, we are excited to share that we have begun rolling out a new Premium feature that has been long requested by both users and artists to make ‘play’ the default […]

It’s the biggest question I have left about Apple TV’s The Morning Show, as a critic who has now watched two seasons of the program: Why does this program always feel about two steps behind the times?The first season was an extended dramatization of a Matt Lauer-style #metoo scandal, which debuted about two years after […]

“The Power Of The Dog” is a Western shot in New Zealand about two brothers – one conspicuously kind, one a bully and a lout – who run a ranch in Montana of the 1920s, where there’s riding, roping, drinking, gelding, bleeding and scheming, but not always where you’re looking. And Jane Campion, the Academy […]

You were supposed to be reading a sort of chatty, funny, and ultimately invaluable introduction to the sprawling world of the series, and its many characters, factions, lands and institutions drawn from Jordan’s books. We’d traded texts about the Wheel of Time primer she was planning to write for NPR. Instead, you get this comparatively […]

The great New Zealand writer-director Jane Campion has long been acclaimed for her films about the complex inner lives of women, notably in 19th-century dramas like The Portrait of a Lady, Bright Star and especially The Piano. Phil seems at one with the land and all its living creatures, whether he’s riding a horse, leading […]

Yamashita and Pearl were among the honorees who spoke of a precarious present, worrying about the wave of efforts to censor books at schools and libraries and about violent attacks against racial minorities. Groff’s novel is based in part on the medieval author Marie de France, an outcast from the French royal court who takes […]

It marked a time when the Mexican artist was at the height of her abilities, and also when her health was declining: Kahlo had numerous surgeries on her spine in 1949, and she began a nine-month hospital stay. “She has such a powerful gaze. By 1949, Kahlo and Rivera had reconciled many of their differences […]

Director Christopher Columbus, who directed the first two Potter films, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and other actors from the eight films will gather for a journey back to Hogwarts to discuss the making of Harry Potter and the impact of the franchise, according to HBO Max. However, while Rowling will be featured in […]

In interviews, Adele has mentioned astrological reasons for this imagery — the tumultuous Saturn return that occurs at the cusp of turning 30 — but it says something about her status in the pop world, too. It’s a shift that’s sometimes subtle, evident in lyrics that make more room for both self-criticism and a sense […]

His sneaker collections have been so popular that it has lead some shops to swear off stocking his shoes in order to avoid crazed fans and resellers, according to one GQ report. Nike’s decision comes after 9-year-old Ezra Blount passed away on Sunday from injuries he sustained at the Astroworld festival. He suffered severe injuries […]

This is the week Logan and his family have been waiting for: We’ve finally reached the shareholders’ meeting where Stewy and Sandy 2 will try to wrest control of Waystar Royco away from the Roy family by persuading enough shareholders to vote with them. This season, each week, we are ranking members of the main […]

KURTZLEBEN: That’s eager, naive, big-hearted Kimberly Finkel, who’s one of the main characters. And she gets there and is, all of a sudden, a very small fish in a very big pond and is kind of forced to confront all of these different social dynamics that are at play when you first get to college. […]

She shared those passions with readers and listeners through her reviews of sci-fi, fantasy, romance, thrillers and comics, her trusty on-the-scene reporting at Comic-Con, and her contributions to the Book Concierge, NPR’s annual literary-recommendation tool. But she found her way back to NPR in 2000, after earning a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University […]

Caitlin Amorin, 23, left the Sad Summer Festival in Worcester, Mass., this past July with bruises wrapped around her leg and down her calf. Leah Johnson, 27, doesn’t think people should stop attending the shows of artists they love. This weekend, Daniel Ajabshir is headed to the Electric Daisy Carnival music festival in Orlando. Steve […]

Britney Spears thanked her fans in a tweet earlier today and said that she thought she would cry the rest of the day, the, quote, “best day ever.” NPR’s Mandalit del Barco was in the courtroom earlier today and spoke with us from just outside, minutes after the ruling. Judge Brenda Penny said the conservatorship […]

Graeme Edge, drummer for The Moody Blues, waves on the red carpet before the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony April 14, 2018, in Cleveland. The band’s frontman, Justin Hayward, confirmed Edge’s death Thursday, on the group’s website. “When Graeme told me he was retiring I knew that without him it couldn’t be […]

Things Take Time, Take Time is the title of the new and third studio album from Australia’s Courtney Barnett — and that name is doing a lot of work. …Read the full story

After a couple of weeks when we seesawed from a very bad episode to a very good episode, now we’re comfortably back in the middle, where some things work and other things seem like they were written on Mars. As you’ll remember, we left Bradley feeling pretty miserable about Hal having shown up at the […]

Editor’s note: This story contains quotes and information originally discussed during a Twitter Spaces event hosted by NPR TV critic Eric Deggans and featuring NPR addiction correspondent Brian Mann, Dopesick author Beth Macy, Dopesick series creator Danny Strong and more. For the millions of Americans whose lives have been shattered by the opioid crisis, Hulu’s […]