#album-release

#album-release

Silversun Pickups release their new album Tenterhooks on February 6 via New Machine Recordings, and they'll play it in full, along with some older favorites, at a release show that night at Los Angeles' The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever. Tickets to attend in person are sold out, but you can stream it live on VEEPS at 11:30 PM ET (8:30 PM PT) and tickets to watch are on sale now, or you can watch with an all-access subscription.

The New Pornographers will release new album The Former Site Of on March 27, via Merge. Watch the video for the single "Votive," animated by Michael Arthur, below. The band that performs on the follow-up to Continue as a Guest comprises A.C. Newman, Kathryn Calder, Neko Case, John Collins, and Todd Fancey. Charley Drayton joins on drums, replacing the disgraced former drummer Joe Seiders. Josh Wells will be behind the kit on the band's April-bound tour.

"The record has this theme of liminality - not just as a place, but in your mind,"

She recorded it with producer and bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch of Momma, and says the sessions felt "refreshing, trusting, and comfortable." "I've never done this before, but I wrote all of the instrumentals and vocal melodies on the piano or guitar, and then I filled in the lyrics all at once over a year," she adds. See the cover art and tracklist below.

Charli XCX has shared a new song from Wuthering Heights, her soundtrack and accompaniment to the Emerald Fennel movie of the same name. Listen to it below ahead of the film and album's dual release on February 13. Charli's recent singles "Chains of Love" and the John Cale-assisted "House" will appear on the album which she has described, on Substack, as a "dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar. Without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight, it was all totally other from the life I was currently living."

Mitski is back. Her new album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me, is out February 27 via Dead Oceans.

The arrival of Robbie Williams's 13th album has been a complicated business. It was announced in May 2025 and was supposed to come out in October, when its title would have chimed with the 90s nostalgia sparked by the Oasis reunion. Williams spent the summer engaging in promotion, unveiling fake Britpop-themed blue plaques around London and staging a press conference at the Groucho Club.

Shabaka Hutchings has announced a new album as Shabaka, Of the Earth, due out March 6 via Shabaka Records ( pre-order). The album comes after Shabaka traded his sax for woodwinds on 2024's ambient jazz album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace and two similar EPs, but Of the Earth finds him picking the sax back up and lead singles "A Future Untold" and "Marwa The Mountain" are in livelier spiritual jazz territory.

Deathcrash will release their third album, Somersaults, on February 27. The follow-up to 2023's is the London slowcore band's latest for Untitled (Recs), and they'll celebrate its release with a show in the label's New York hometown, at Night Club 101, on February 26. (Find the rest of the band's tour dates on their website.) Listen to the Somersaults title track below, and scroll down to find the album art and tracklist, which includes the recent single " Triumph."

Caity Arthur directed the roller disco-themed music video for lead single " Like You Really Mean It." Watch it below. "I wrote this to make my girlfriend want to give me a kiss," Anjimile said in a press statement. "We live about an hour apart, and I was just by myself thinking about her. Thinking about wanting a kiss. What could I do to get a kiss from my sweetheart? Write a song about it! Anyway, it worked."

Bruno Mars has revealed his new album, The Romantic, will be out on February 27th.

Indie-pop quintet Heavenly will pair their already-announced 2026 tour with a new album, their first since 1996's Operation Heavenly. The band-original members Amelia Fletcher, Cathy Rogers, Peter Momtchiloff, and Rob Pursey, plus new drummer Ian Button- recorded Highway to Heavenly with producer Toby Burroughs. It will be released on February 27 via Fletcher and Pursey's label, Skep Wax.

Tigers Jaw have announced their seventh album, Lost On You, due out March 27 via Hopeless. It's the follow-up to 2021's very good I Won't Care How You Remember Me, and the second album recorded with the duo of Ben Walsh and Brianna Collins joined by drummer Teddy Roberts and bassist Colin Gorman. This time they also have Mark Lebiecki, who has been playing live with them for a few years, on guitar, and regular collaborator Will Yip produced and engineered.

Introducing Iris Caltwait's new single "Alchemy (Living Is Not For The Heart)". The amazing video for "Alchemy" was filmed in Tokyo, adding a unique visual layer to Iris Caltwait's latest masterpiece. This track is part of her brand-new album, "Again, for the first time," which has just dropped, capturing the essence of her transformative journey. Mark your calendars for February 3, 2026, when the Norwegian alt-pop sensation will take the stage for an exclusive show at the iconic Berghain Kantine in Berlin.

German band The Notwist have announced News from Planet Zombie, their 10th album and first in five years, which will be out March 3 via Morr Music.

"Last year, I decided that I would stop releasing music altogether," Polly says. "I continued going to my studio and making music purely for the way it allows my brain access a different plane and way of being; for the process over the outcome. That decision unlocked a period of intense creativity like I've never experienced before; I got obsessed and very existential.

Boston metalcore icons Converge have announced their first non-collaborative album in nearly nine years. Love Is Not Enough arrives February 13 via Deathwish Inc. and Epitaph Records. Leading the LP is the title track, which reckons with how to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world. Watch its music video below. Love Is Not Enough is Converge's 11th studio album.

Drew Daniel is getting ready to release his first Soft Pink Truth album since 2022. The new album, Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?, is out January 30 via Thrill Jockey. The record's lead single, " Time Inside the Violet," comes with a music video made by animator Matthew Murray Sullivan in collaboration with visual artist Vicki Bennett. Watch the visual below.

The scent of copal flowed out of Nexxus Bar and Grill onto the corner of Third and East Santa Clara streets in downtown San Jose. Inside, a young girl welcomed each visitor and handed them a cempasuchil (marigold)-all its golden petals and long stem intact. "Hold onto it until the end," she instructed. On this rainy Monday evening, a steady flow of supporters gathered to celebrate a local album release by Miguel Saucedo, better known as the rapper Miguel Kultura.

The appearance featured a powerhouse performance of the title track, followed by Florence Welch sitting down for an interview alongside fellow guests Bruce Springsteen, Jeremy Allen White, Jennifer Lawrence, and Tessa Thompson. Welch belted out "Everybody Scream" with furious intensity, backed by a choir with synchronized choreography. Their literal screams added to the already haunting nature of the performance, which was accentuated by a tight rhythm section and dynamic piano.

November 2025 issue.PUP is back. The Canadian punk rockers-whose name stands for Pathetic Use of Potential, a sentiment I can get behind-just put out their fifth studio album, evocatively titled Who Will Look After the Dogs? And as the title implies, it's about relationships-the bad ones. Those love affairs that curdle, those forms of dislike you can only really cultivate when you know someone a little too well.

Kuli's project just released their second full-length album, We're Headed To The Lake, via Philadelphia label, Julia's War Recordings. The new LP eschews some of the grime and overt experimentalism heard on Guitar's first album, 2024's Casting Spells on Turtlehead, favoring the energy of a more focused collection of anthemic cuts. This approach to the writing and recording of the new album called for a more live-band-in-a-room feel rather than the one-man-in-a-bedroom vibe heard on Guitar singles since the project's inception in 2022,

Taylor Swift's engagement to Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce and the release of her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, were expected to mark triumphant milestones in an already storied career. And while Showgirl is yet another blockbuster mega-seller-with a related film hitting No. 1 at the box office -it's also inspired one of the rarest things of all: backlash.