New Music Friday: The best albums out Nov. 7
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Starting 5:
- Rosalía, 'Lux'
- Young Miko, 'Do Not Disturb'
- Various Artists, 'All Things Go: 10 Years'
- Portugal. The Man, 'Shish'
- Mavis Staples, 'Sad and Beautiful World'
The Lightning Round:
- Juana Molina, 'DOGA'
- Liam Kazar, 'Pilot Light'
- The Mountain Goats, 'Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan'
- The Cranberries, 'MTV Unplugged'
- Sarathy Korwar, 'There Is Beauty, There Already'
See the long list of albums out Nov. 7 and sample dozens of them via our New Music Friday playlist on NPR.org
Credits:
Host: Stephen Thompson
Guests: Anamaria Sayre and Liz Felix, WYEP
Audio Producer: Noah Caldwell
Digital Producer: Elle Mannion
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
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| 0:35.1 | Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I am Stephen Thompson here with my colleague, Anna Maria Sayre, from Alt-Latino. Welcome, Anna. Hi, Stephen. I'm also here with Liz Felix from WYEP in Pittsburgh. Welcome to the show, Liz. Thanks for having me, Stephen. So we have a lot of music to get to this week. |
| 0:54.3 | So we're going to structure this week's show a little bit differently. |
| 0:57.8 | Anna Maria is here with me to talk about the new Rosalia record, which we will do in just one moment. |
| 1:03.7 | Then Anna is going to bail, and Liz and I are going to talk about a bunch more great stuff, including new albums from Mavis Staples, Young Miko. |
| 1:12.6 | We've got a lot of music to get to. |
| 1:15.2 | But we're also, if you notice you're hearing in the background, music from Wings, why not? |
| 1:20.5 | Wings has a new compilation out today. |
| 1:23.7 | It is self-titled. |
| 1:25.0 | It is billed as the definitive self-titled collection. |
| 1:28.4 | Part of Paul McCartney's incredibly expansive musical life. |
| 1:33.8 | And Liz, you are seeing Paul McCartney in concert next week. |
| 1:37.1 | Oh, my gosh. I am so excited. |
| 1:39.3 | I haven't seen Paul since Bonarue many years ago, and he was absolutely amazing. |
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| 1:50.4 | Paul, who is not always my favorite Beatle, but the songs are just so amazing. So, very excited. |
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