Preorder Upcoming ReleasesView More
FeaturedView More
-
What's New 5-8-26
UMeThe third and final chapter of Diamond's celebrated Rick Rubin collaboration, Wild At Heart compiles ten previously unreleased songs from the 2007 Home Before Dark sessions, recently completed by Diamond. Featuring members of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, the record returns to the raw, guitar-centered minimalism of 12 Songs. "My work with Rick was a labor of love," Diamond says. A poignant close to a remarkable trilogy.
Captured TracksThe D'Addario brothers channel the melodic extravagance of peak Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren, and '70s glam pop into their own distinctly theatrical vision on this Captured Tracks release. Dense with harmonies, key changes, and instrumental invention, Look For Your Mind! has been called their most fully realized album yet - a credible claim given how strong the competition is.
Pure Noise RecordsLong Island pop-punk outfit Koyo's Pure Noise debut has already drawn comparisons to classic Saves the Day and late-period Taking Back Sunday. They write with an emotional precision that elevates them above the crowded field of emo-adjacent acts. Hooks are irresistible and performances feel urgent, helping establishing them as one of the more exciting acts in the scene.
Epitaph RecordsMike Ness brings Social Distortion back with their first studio album in over a decade, and it arrives fully loaded with the band's signature blend of punk, country, and working-class rock storytelling. Born To Kill delivers defiant, melodically hook-laden songs rooted in the tradition that runs from Johnny Cash through the Clash. Ness sounds galvanized by the years away.
Arts & CraftsThe Toronto collective gathers its sprawling membership back into the communal indie rock that made You Forgot It in People essential. Messy and joyful, Remember The Humans draws across the entire extended BSS family of contributors. It sounds like a reunion that genuinely meant something to the people making it rather than an obligation.
Kill Rock StarsThe legendary songwriter turns the lens entirely on herself, eschewing glossy production for something raw and acoustically grounded. Perry's voice - always the undersung asset in every room she's worked in - carries the emotional weight of Let It Die Here throughout. Intensely personal and entirely on her own terms.
PeacevilleFenriz and Nocturno Culto blend primitive black metal riffs with the classic heavy metal and punk influences they have openly embraced for two decades. Raw, unpolished, and wholly indifferent to trends, Pre-Historic Metal is exactly what their devoted fanbase expects: total conviction delivered with the winking self-awareness the title implies.
Century MediaThe Fort Worth death metal quintet solidify their position as one of the most reliable acts in modern death metal. Glacially heavy and atmospheric, No Place Of Warmth adds a new layer of songwriting confidence to the already imposing formula. Fans of Obituary, Gatecreeper, and early Bolt Thrower will find this essential.
Real World ProductionsThis newly surfaced 1982 WOMAD festival recording captures Gabriel performing early solo material with Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta in superb form. The sound quality is remarkable for a 44-year-old tape, and the performances crackle with real energy. An essential document of his formative post-Genesis years and the world music movement he helped build.
4ADThe New Zealand songwriter's fifth album, co-produced with long-time collaborator John Parish at Rockfield Studios in Wales, extends her gift for elliptical, quietly theatrical folk into subtle new directions. Lead single "One Stop" builds from sparse jingle-jangle guitar into something unexpectedly direct and striking. Harpist Mali Llywelyn and drummer Sebastian Rochford add delicate textures throughout. Harding's most accessible album without being any less mysterious.
Thirty Tigers/Amy Grant ProductionsThe pioneering Christian pop singer reflects on five decades with a deeply personal album built around faith, family, and resilience. Grant's voice has a weathered grace on The Me That Remains, and the stripped-back production gives her songwriting space to breathe. For long-time fans, this is a moving and intimate record from an artist still searching inward.
Warner Music NashvilleMcBryde delivers her most creatively expansive album, pushing country music's genre boundaries without losing the straight-shooting directness that made her a critical favorite. Wild maintains the grit and authenticity of her earlier releases while stretching into more adventurous territory. Her voice remains one of the most emotionally persuasive in contemporary country, and the songwriting here is her best.
Read More -
Now Hear This! - May 2026


Skindred
You Got This
Earache RecordsBuy Now The ragga-metal veterans return as a newly slimmed trio on their ninth album and most fully realized record yet. Finally closing the gap between their legendary live show and their studio output, You Got This crackles with dancehall-meets-metal hooks from the stomping title track through the sun-drenched reggae closer "Give Thanks." Joyous, festival-ready, impossible to stand still to. 
The Milk Carton Kids
Lost Cause Lover Fool
Thirty Tigers/Far Cry RecordsBuy Now Seven albums in, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan have made their signature minimalism even smaller. Lost Cause Lover Fool opens with a banjo handled like light across grass, zooms in on small domestic moments, and ends with the tender ache of "Young Love." Two voices, two guitars, a world magnified. Essential Milk Carton Kids. 
Lolo
god forbid a girl spits out her feelings
FearlessBuy Now Lauren Mandel turns emotional oversharing into an art form on her diaristic second album. More acoustic and intimate than her debut, it balances sharp pop-punk bite with genuine vulnerability. "007" and "dumbest girl in the world" are bracingly self-aware, while "me with no shirt on" cuts deepest. Chaotic, unhinged, but never careless. 
Pussycat Dolls
PCD + Doll Domination
IGA/UMeBuy Now Two decades on, The Dolls make the case that PCD remains a defining pop statement of the 2000s. This double reissue pairs the platinum-certified debut with Doll Domination on vinyl for the first time. "Don't Cha," "Buttons," and "When I Grow Up" still hit hard, and new remixes by Devault and Charlotte Plank feel right at home. 
Valve
Half-Life: Alyx (Official Game Soundtrack)
Ipecac RecordingsBuy Now Mike Morasky's score for the landmark VR game gets its first physical release, extending the long Valve/Ipecac partnership that began with Portal 2. Drawing inspiration from Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, and Skinny Puppy, the music blends ominous ambient textures with pulsating electronics into a deeply immersive listening experience that holds up well outside the game itself. 
Brother Wallace
Electric Love
ATO RecordsBuy Now K-12 music teacher turned soul revivalist Brother Wallace makes a stunning debut. Produced by Dan Taylor of The Heavy at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, Electric Love is thirteen tracks of Stax-and-Motown soul built around Wallace's extraordinary voice. The same voice that had "Who's That?" charting Top 20 before radio play was even planned. 
India Ramey
Villain Era
Blue Elan RecordsBuy Now Nashville outlaw India Ramey's sixth album does exactly what the title promises. Recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy-nominated producer Eric Corne, Villain Era is ten spaghetti-western-meets-honky-tonk vignettes laced with gallows humor and emotional precision. She wanted it to sound like Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn scoring a Tarantino film. On songs like "Six Feet Under," she gets there. 
Lip Critic
Theft World
Partisan RecordsBuy Now Electro-punks Lip Critic built their sophomore album around an extraordinary true story: frontman Bret Kaser's identity thief turned out to be a fan who believed the catalog contained hidden codes. They scrapped their existing material and built Theft World around the mythology the kid invented. The result is a focused, maximalist transmission of breakbeats, jagged guitars, and hardcore urgency. 
Sofiane Pamart
Movie
88 Touches ProductionBuy Now France's most-streamed classical pianist opens his universe to fourteen collaborators on this cinematic fourth album. From a Wyclef Jean meditation on peace to Sia's powerhouse "Gimme Love Orchestra" and NBA star Jimmy Butler narrating "Midnight in California," the Prague Philharmonic providing orchestral sweep throughout, Movie is conceived as a film Pamart himself directed, the piano always holding the lead role. 
Tiga
Hotlife
Secret CityBuy Now Ending a decade-long album drought with a career-defining record, Tiga worked with Boys Noize, Matthew Dear, and newer names like Fcukers, HOTLIFE to create something crackling with wit and dancefloor muscle. An INXS cover transmuted into frost-covered electro and a New Order-esque closer with genuine emotional warmth remind you why Tiga has always been one of electronic music's most endearing characters. 
Death Lens
What's Left Now?
Epitaph RecordsBuy Now Four working-class, multicultural SoCal punks make their most urgent record. Produced by Zach Tuch (Knocked Loose, Touche Amore), What's Left Now? examines breakups, fascism, and self-worth with an anger that never loses its melody. From the Spanish-language opener "Monolith" to the anthemic "Pulling Teeth," this is sharp, politically charged punk-rock that crackles from start to finish. 
Mavi
The Pilot
Loma VistaBuy Now The Pilot documents the Charlotte rapper's initial year of sobriety and the contradictions that come with it. Boom bap, jazz rap, and lo-fi hip-hop underpin candid reckoning with new wealth and old anxieties. Guest appearances from Earl Sweatshirt, Smino, and MIKE add texture to a brief but weighty 26-minute mixtape. 
Liam Kazar
Pilot Light
Congrats RecordsBuy Now Kazar's sophomore album is warm, comforting, and quietly confident. Folk-pop Americana with a jazzy undertow and a storyteller's instinct, Pilot Light develops his sound without abandoning it. Think Josh Ritter-adjacent songwriting with a more contemplative, melancholy tone. No dramatic reinventions, just a talented songwriter refining what he does best. 
Julia Cumming
Julia
Partisan RecordsBuy Now Sunflower Bean's Julia Cumming steps out alone with a debut that trades guitar fuzz for piano clarity and Carole King-to-Carly Simon songwriter warmth. Described as her "anti-cool" statement, Julia is a joyous celebration of misfits shaped by two years in Los Angeles with producer Brian Robert Jones. Beneath the sunny arrangements, songs like "Ruled By Fear" carry a darker, more anxious underbelly. 
Mama's Gun
Dig!
Blue Elan RecordsBuy Now Recorded live to 16-track analogue tape in Leeds, Dig! has the warmth of musicians playing together for nearly two decades. The title track features a co-lead vocal from Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron's legendary collaborator. Timeless soul built from Motown, Marvin Gaye, and Al Green, delivered without leaning on nostalgia. 
Benjamin Tod
Vengeance And Grace
Thirty Tigers/Lost Dog Street BandBuy Now Lost Dog Street Band frontman presents ten songs twice - once with a full band, once alone on acoustic guitar. Following major personal change including the birth of his first child, Vengeance and Grace explores classic country terrain: redemption, regret, and hard-won faith. The stripped acoustic version in particular showcases the quiet power of Tod's songwriting. 
Taj Mahal
Time
Thirty TigersBuy Now Five-time Grammy winner Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band finally release 2010 sessions anchored by a remarkable find: an unrecorded Bill Withers demo, brought to Taj with the family's blessing. Spanning blues, soul, reggae, and Afro-Cuban grooves, with Ziggy Marley guesting on a Bob Marley cover, Time is deep-groove, grown-folks music from a living legend. 
Jack Johnson
Surfilmusic
Brushfire/Universal RecordsBuy Now A companion double album to Johnson's documentary of the same name, Surfilmusic splits across two discs: a new score co-written with Hermanos Gutierrez, and archival four-track home recordings from Johnson's earliest days. Hearing raw pre-production versions of "Flake," "Bubble Toes," and "Taylor" strips away the beach-playlist familiarity and reveals how strong those songs were from the beginning. 


LISTEN HERE 
LISTEN HERE 

Foo Fighters
Your Favorite Toy
RCABuy Now The 12th Foo Fighters album is the leanest and most raw since Wasting Light. With new drummer Ilan Rubin (a NIN veteran) providing tightly mechanical energy, Your Favorite Toy is 36 minutes of high-octane catharsis. Grohl exorcises recent personal demons through sheer volume as the band crackles with conviction. 
Castle Rat
The Bestiary
Loma VistaBuy Now Your favorite medieval fantasy doom quartet deliver a wicked sophomore record that seals the deal. Metal Hammer called it the perfect response to a metal mainstream gone mad. Steeped in Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and Candlemass, The Bestiary follows Rat Queen Riley Pinkerton through dragons, wolves, and wizards. Crushing riffs, gothic atmosphere, and enough hooks to make even skeptics headbang. 
Young the Giant
Victory Garden
FearlessBuy Now Victory Garden is an ode to radical empathy, written largely during retreats in Idyllwild and Joshua Tree and produced by Brendan O'Brien at Henson Studios in Hollywood. Reconnecting with full-band collaboration after 2022's American Bollywood, it ditches the gloss for grit. Warm, anthemic and quietly sure of itself, this is a record that earns its emotional payoff rather than demanding it. 


Kacey Musgraves
Live From The Middle of NowhereBuy Now Kacey Musgraves has always written from somewhere most people are afraid to admit they live. Her new album, Middle of Nowhere, doubles down on that honesty, and now she's bringing it to a city near you. Expect dreamy production, razor-sharp songwriting, and all the cosmic Texan charm that has made her a generation-defining artist. Get lost in The Middle of Nowhere Tourit's the surest way home you'll find all year. 

Kacey Musgraves Buy Now Some artists make albums. Kacey Musgraves makes maps. From the small-town wisdom of Pageant Material to the starlit heartbreak of Star Crossed, the sun-warmed haze of Golden Hour, and the still, searching quiet of Deeper Well, she has charted a course that is entirely her own. Wherever she is headed next, you'll want to follow... even if it's to the Middle of Nowhere. 
Billie Eilish Buy Now Billie Eilish does not ask for your attention, she just has it. From the eerie, whispering darkness of When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, where trap beats collided with nightmare imagery and a generation found its anxious heartbeat, to the bright bitterness of Happier Than Ever, where she shed the shadows and stepped into her own anger with breathtaking clarity, she has made discomfort feel like home and vulnerability like strength. Read More

