New Music Friday: The best albums out March 7

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Lady Gaga. Jason Isbell. Newcomer Annie DiRusso. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Celia Gregory from Nashville public radio station WNXP to discuss these records and much more.

Featured albums:

• Annie DiRusso, 'Super Pedestrian' (Stream)

• Jason Isbell, 'Foxes in the Snow' (Stream)

• Sasami, 'Blood on the Silver Screen' (Stream)

• Divorce, 'Drive To Goldenhammer' (Stream)

• ASTROPICAL (Bomba Estéreo + Rawayana), 'ASTROPICAL' (Stream)

Read our feature on 'ASTROPICAL' here.

Check out our long list of albums out March 7 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

Credits:

• Host: Stephen Thompson
• Guest: Celia Gregory, WNXP
• Producer: Simon Rentner
• Editor: Otis Hart
• Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:42.1	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:44.7	It's New Music Friday.
0:45.9	I am Stephen Thompson.
0:47.3	I'm here with Celia Gregory from WNXP in Nashville.
0:50.8	Hey, Celia.
0:51.6	Hey, it's so great to be with you, Stephen.
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0:53.9	It is such a pleasure. We've got several great Nashville records, top to bottom,
0:58.8	all killer, no filler this week. But first, we wanted to acknowledge the biggest kind of
1:03.4	commercial release of the week. Lady Gaga's Mayhem is out today.
1:07.8	Dance or die.
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