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Steven Bernstein - ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance (w/ Scotty Hard) (Royal Potato Family)

5 June 2026

Double-titled disk ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance finds Bernstein wandering two different but intimately related paths.

Luna Day - Hostage of the Heart (self-released)

5 June 2026

Luna Day is an alternative pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a focus on writing infectious melodies, honest lyrics, and connecting with her audience.

The Gods They Made - Hypnotic (self-released)

5 June 2026

The Gods They Made are a four-piece indie alt-rock band from Geneva, Switzerland.

The Heat Inc. - True Romance (Tri-Tone/Republic of Music)

5 June 2026

New single from The Heat Inc, True Romance now out.

Junk Fingers - Audrey’s Fever and Other Stories (Rat on a Stick)

4 June 2026

Formed in 2009 and featuring members of Hepcat Dilemma, Special Ed, Fuzzy Comets, and A.T.S., this Pittsburgh quartet finally follows up their 2010 debut You Can’t Drink All Day Unless You Start in the Morning.

Akrobat - Dirty Gathering (Jammed Records)

4 June 2026

Dublin-based collective Akrobat return with their new single “Dirty Gathering”, marking a further step in the band’s evolution across indie, new wave and art-rock.

George Collins Band - My Tomorrow is Already Missing You Today (George Collins Records)

4 June 2026

George Collins is a transatlantic storyteller based in Prague and Key West. His writing brings soulful flair to the worlds of rock music, novels, and television!

Euplasia - Romeo Ohio (self-released)

4 June 2026

Euplasia is a Nottingham-based independent artist, songwriter and NHS doctor creating emotionally driven indie pop/rock that balances melodic hooks with honest, real-world storytelling.

Digital Underground – Sex Packets 35th Anniversary 2xLP (Tommy Boy)

4 June 2026

Return to 1990 with this saucy slice of Bay Area-meets-Tampa hip-hop (and funk and jazz) that wound its way into mainstream ears through sheer catchiness.

Salim Nourallah - Nourallah; Close as a Star (Happiness/PSR Music Group)

3 June 2026

This Alton, IL-born, Denton, TX-based, ex-Moon Festival singer/guitarist has been busy, following up 2022’s Marty Willson-Piper co-produced A Nuclear Winter with these ninth and tenth LPs, recorded with songwriting friend Billy Harvey.

Lurcher - Bad Gag (Guttersnipe Recordings)

3 June 2026

Lurcher’s second EP Bad Gag delivers on the promise of their debut With Love.

Lonesome Cat - Acoustic Mourning (Unsound Creations)

3 June 2026

For listeners drawn to introspective songwriting and unguarded emotional expression, Acoustic Mourning is a sombre but affecting collection that earns its impact through authenticity rather than sentimentality.

The Tirith - Quetzalcoatl (Self-Released)

3 June 2026

Quetzalcoatl is a thoughtful and constantly rewarding listen that showcases a band still breaking new ground decades into its story.

YACOVELLI - Since Emilia (YacsTrax)

3 June 2026

“Since Emilia” is the 4th single from “Nu York” Neo-Grunge & Punk band YACOVELLI, fronted by longtime underground veteran Alex Yacovelli.

Stan Snow - Road to the Sun (Self-Released)

3 June 2026

While some moments lean toward familiar classic-rock influences, the sincerity of the performances and the care invested in every detail keep the material engaging. For listeners who appreciate melodic, musician-driven rock albums built for the long-form listening experience, Road to the Sun is a rewarding journey.

Forgotten Garden - Rain (self-released)

3 June 2026

Forgotten Garden are a Scottish-Portuguese Indie band

Idiot Grins - Golf Cart Life (Self-Released)

3 June 2026

Golf Cart Life may not reinvent Idiot Grins’ formula, but it reinforces what has made the band such a distinctive presence: versatility, heart, and an enduring love of great songs.

Mishell Ivon, Jerome Brooks, Jr., Leyla Romanova - My Sun  (Genchev Sound)

3 June 2026

Leyla Romanova is a multigenre composer whose work spans nearly the entire musical spectrum — from the grandeur of the symphony orchestra to innovative electronic soundscapes and intimate pop-jazz inflections.

e.lissa faden - Just Might (Daisy Chain Records)

3 June 2026

Alt rock artist e.lissa releases “Just Might,” a Pride Month anthem about self-discovery

Say I - Scarlet Ayliz (Scarlet Music Group SP / Create Music Group Inc)

3 June 2026

“Say, I” is the new video/single from Scarlet Ayliz

Future Clouds & Radar - Big Weather (The Star Apple Kingdom)

3 June 2026

With Cotton Mather on ice, Robert Harrison returns to Future Clouds & Radar for Big Weather, the combo’s first album since 2008.

Janus 4-14 - All the Kids Are Doing It (Charlotte Court)

2 June 2026

The third album from this Woody Allen Sleeper robot-named Mount Airy, NC trio compiles two recent six-song EPs, 2024’s Ghost From Your Past and 2025’s Blue to Infinity.

Lions of the Interstate - Blossom (Braxeling)

1 June 2026

Like they did on 2023’s Strange Empires, this Portland five-piece combine buoyant, shimmering dreampop with noisier forays into speedy, fermenting indie rock on their second full-length.

David Omlor - The American Boys (The Ballad of Frank Gusenberg and the St Valentine's Day Massacre) (self-released)

1 June 2026

The American Boys (The Ballad of Frank Gusenberg and the St Valentine’s Day Massacre) is the latest single from David Omlor.

BLOCK - Love Crash (Meridian (ECR Music Group)

1 June 2026

Artists like BLOCK don’t come along that often. When they do, they act as a sort of benchmark, a backdrop that can bring into sharp focus the fact that most music in the modern age is unadventurous, happy to follow the pack, do more of the same, be, well, whatever the opposite of unique is.

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp - Synesthesia (Defkaz)

1 June 2026

These four are all old friends who interact musically the way siblings do whenever they get together, no matter how long it’s been since the last time.

Tom Tikka & The Missing Hubcaps ft. The Star Prairie Project - Runaway Baby (One Media iP Ltd)

1 June 2026

Tom Tikka teams up with Nolen Chew Jr. of The Star Prairie Project for a killer slice of Americana, Runaway Baby

Spinors - Choose to Believe (self-released)

1 June 2026

Spinors is an Alternative Rock band with a Steampunk aesthetic based in London, United Kingdom, founded by Sergie Code, its singer and guitarist.

Dawn Derow - Float (self-released)

1 June 2026

“Float” is the latest single from Dawn Derow.

Tiger Adopt - Mortlake (Accidental Industries)

1 June 2026

Tiger Adopt is the studio project of London-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer Sam Bishop

Trauma Party - Because You've Been Good (self-released)

31 May 2026

Post-punk desert lullabies and sonic anthems for the downtrodden.

SPKtR - La Encantadora Furiosa (self-released)

31 May 2026

‘La Encantadora Furiosa’ (“the furious enchantress”), is the second release from The SPKtR in 2026,

Villagerrr - Carousel (Winspear)

30 May 2026

‘Carousel’ acknowledges the disquiet of existing in a world where personal expression is constantly mediated and quantified, yet it insists on the value of sincerity as a counterforce. The album’s rotating cast of voices and textures becomes a metaphor for this belief, suggesting that meaning is not something to be secured in isolation but something that takes shape through shared experience, however fragile that process may be.

Josephine Foster - Adormidera (Eiderdown Records)

30 May 2026

Many records aspire to timelessness by stripping away contemporary markers. ‘Adormidera’ reaches something more profound. It does not sound detached from time; it sounds adjacent to it, as though these songs had been quietly waiting for the precise conditions under which Foster and Herrero could finally give them voice.

Andrew Anderson - Thresholds (Elevator Bath)

30 May 2026

What lingers most after ‘Thresholds’ concludes is its refusal to offer interpretive certainty. Anderson does not guide the listener toward resolution or conceptual clarity. Instead, he constructs environments in which memory, decay, natural force, and subconscious imagery circulate freely, colliding in unpredictable forms.

The Alarm-Transformation (21st Century Recordings/Virgin Music Group)

30 May 2026

Poignant, direct lyrics such as “I don’t want to live forever. I want to live right now, I want to live today.” With the understanding of Peter’s struggle with cancer, this may sound haunting, but the takeaway can be an uplifting message. The spirit of Mike Peters within Transformation remains strong, but longtime fans may feel a tremendous sense of loss, because this remains The Alarm’s final record.

NINA with Radio Wolf - To See You (NewRetroWave)

30 May 2026

NINA and Radio Wolf enter night vision with ‘To See You’ — a nocturnal collision of haunting vocals, soaring guitars, synth textures and cinematic atmosphere.

A Beech Landing - Hermit (self-released)

30 May 2026

A Beech Landing returns with new single,Hermit

MatAre - Dissolution (self-released)

30 May 2026

“Dissolution” is the latest single from Atlanta-based musician Matare.

AINM - Darlin' (self-released)

30 May 2026

Irish collective AINM return with their new single “Darlin’”, a track that unfolds into something expansive, intimate and deeply atmospheric

Ben Aubergine - Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28, No. 4) (Cold Tasty Music)

30 May 2026

Ahead of a full album of reimagined Chopin Preludes, Ben Aubergine gives us a taste with a new take on Prelude in E Minor

Amateur Ornithologist - The Haunted Life of Architecture (Regret Everything Records)

30 May 2026

Amateur Ornithologist share their new album, The Haunted Life of Architecture.

Michael Keane - Titles Electronica (Life Science)

29 May 2026

Having enjoyed this NJ electro pop virtuoso’s two “hypnotic, ear-tickling” releases as Textbook Maneuver, 2025’s Adrenaline Slip and 2024’s Strike Joy EP, it was no surprise this neo-classical piano LP under his own name would also delight.

Co.LeGa - Digitally Modified (MorseCodeRecords)

29 May 2026

“Digitally Modified,” the new single from Co.LeGa, is out now.

GB Leighton - Tangerine (Moonsong Records)

29 May 2026

G B Leighton’s new album, Tangerine, out now

Joe Lovano - Paramount Quartet (ECM)

29 May 2026

Less dense than Lovano’s nineties combos, but also less ethereal than his recent work leading Trio Tapestry, Paramount Quartet trims the fat and works the muscle of its bop-based modern jazz.

Wooden Overcoat - Hello Sunbeam EP (Self Published)

28 May 2026

Wooden Overcoat’s debut EP turns lo-fi psych, shoegaze haze, and basement-recorded warmth into something bright, uneasy, and quietly haunted.

The Alarm – Transformation (Twenty First Century)

28 May 2026

The last musical testament from Mike Peters and Welsh rockers The Alarm is everything you’d expect from a man that lived life with full-throttle passion. It’s an autobiographic aural blitz on steroids. Just as big as his personality, ”Transformation” is also a lyrical diary encapsulating everything important to him as he went through harrowing treatments to fight his blood cancer. Though he died suddenly in April 2025, stunning family and fans worldwide, his final album released May 29, 2026 – one year to the day from his funeral in Wales – has its own eternal beating heart.

JB Meijers - Rock und Roll (Zip Netherlands)

28 May 2026

On this prolific Dutch guitarist’s fourth solo LP, following 2021’s The Beginning and Everything Before, he’s joined by formidable drummer Joost Kroon; together they bang out colossal, turbocharged guitar rock.

Cole Berliner - The Black Door (Drag City)

28 May 2026

The California guitarist takes a page from the book of musician/composers like William Tyler and Hayden Pedigo, delivering acoustic guitar-centered instrumentals with a cinematic bent.