New Music Friday: The best new albums out June 13
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Featured albums:
• Annahstasia, 'Tether' (Stream)
• Mary Halvorson, 'About Ghosts' (Stream)
• Brandee Younger, 'Gadabout Season' (Stream)
• Joe Armon-Jones, 'All The Quiet (Part II)' (Stream)
• The Cure, 'Mixes for a Lost World' (Stream)
See our long list of albums out June 13 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.
Credits
Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Nate Chinen, WRTI
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins
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| 0:00.0 | I shall |
| 0:01.0 | Proceed |
| 0:02.0 | and continue |
| 0:03.0 | to rock the mic |
| 0:05.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music |
| 0:08.0 | It's New Music Friday. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Steven Thompson here with Nate Chenen from WRTI in Philadelphia. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey Nate. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, Steven. |
| 0:16.0 | It is a pleasure to have you here. |
| 0:18.0 | We've got a terrific roundup of new records, |
| 0:20.0 | including a remix album from The Cure, |
| 0:23.1 | new albums from Brandy Younger and Mary Halverson. |
| 0:26.1 | But first, Nate, I wanted to talk to you. |
| 0:28.4 | You were just at the Roots picnic? |
| 0:31.0 | That I was. |
| 0:32.0 | Tell me about that. |
| 0:33.1 | It's really this big tent kind of hip-hop and R&B festival. |
| 0:37.8 | This year, I was especially interested to go because they were celebrating the 30th anniversary |
| 0:42.6 | of Do You Want More? |
| 0:47.9 | The Roots major label debut and... |
| 0:52.6 | Anniversary is designed to make us feel old. |
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