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Frank Joshua - Almost (Numen Records)

6 September 2026

Frank Joshua is a London-based singer-songwriter releasing emotionally intelligent, cinematic pop under a deliberate ‘No Face Just Music’ ethos.

Tom Minor - What a Little Moonlight Could Do (Overreaction Records)

6 September 2026

Hailing from London N1, singer-songwriter Tom Minor draws inspiration from indie rock, new wave and punk, power pop, psychedelic and garage rock, soul, reggae and R&B.

Leathers - Plantano Macho (KM Records)

5 September 2026

West Country, 20 toed, garage-stronk, primitive, flamboyant, sleaze-machine.

Sky Is Alright - Summer In Galt (Shore Dive Records)

5 September 2026

Written across two continents, “Summer In Galt” opens FINITE., Sky Is Alright’s first album in five years.

Mark Emsley - Satellite Heart (Mark Emsley Music)

5 September 2026

Mark Emsley is a UK singer-songwriter making melodic, guitar-driven rock and pop-rock built around big choruses and honest lyrics.

Los Tres Mortales - Bourbon (Motherofskye Creations)

4 September 2026

Based between New Jersey, Ohio and California, Los Tres Mortales bring together Caroline Blind and CWHK of Sunshine Blind with Troy Payne of The Wake for a new dose of proof-scorched, gun-slinging goth-rock

Lost Velvet - Dark Cells (self-released)

4 September 2026

UK cinematic alternative rock duo LOST VELVET recently unveiled their new single and video, 2003 and have just released their debut album, Dark Cells, out now.

Stick Men - Let’s THRAK Again (Unsung)

4 September 2026

Stick Men pays loving tribute to the King Crimson album THRAK, but not in the way you might expect.

Alysha - Take It or Leave It (ONErpm)

4 September 2026

London-based rising star Alysha embraces the darker side of her artistry with her latest single, ‘Take It or Leave It’, a brooding collision of goth, new-wave and electronic sounds

Cave Shine - Memory Serves (The Sunroom Inc.)

3 September 2026

Cave Shine is a North Carolina-based dream pop and shoegaze project creating immersive, emotionally resonant music that draws equally from the lush cinematic textures of the 1980s and a forward-looking modern sensibility.

Matthew Edwards - The Small Heath Book of the Dead (Too Good To Be True/Last Tape Recordings)

3 September 2026

The Small Heath Book of the Dead, the second solo album by Matthew Edwards after many records with the Music Lovers, the Unfortunates, the Futurists, and the Hairdressers, continues his high standards of excellence as a songwriter, singer, and record maker.

Steve Stinson - Evergreen (self-released)

3 September 2026

Singer-songwriter Steve Stinson continues the journey towards his forthcoming debut album Cocoon (October 2026), with his latest single, ‘Evergreen.’

Michelle Kash - Salvation (Petty Vendetta)

3 September 2026

New York-born, Los Angeles-based artist Michelle Kash returns with her latest single, ‘Salvation’, an upbeat yet emotionally charged dance-pop track that explores the fragile space between breaking down and breaking through.

Oskar Brandt - Now or Never (Nvak Collective)

3 September 2026

Berlin-based singer-songwriter Oskar Brandt introduces his artistic world with ‘Now or Never’, a cinematic orchestral pop single.

Rusty Reid - I Can See Clearly Now (self-released)

2 September 2026

Rusty Reid is an American indie-folk-pop-country-rock singer-songwriter, originally from Texas, now based in the Pacific Northwest.

Bella Shields - One Wish (self-released)

2 September 2026

Dublin-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bella Shields returns with her third official single, “One Wish.”

I Give My Friends Flowers - Dogstar1 (self-released)

2 September 2026

DOGSTAR 1 is a 12-song LP that is non-linear, kaleidoscopic, and densely immersive.

Silver Summer - Closer (self-released)

2 September 2026

Midnight music for summer lovers.

Robbie Gennet - The Giver and the Thief (self-released)

1 September 2026

Robbie Gennet writes, produces, and performs across genres that resist easy labels — songs meant less to entertain than to accompany a listener’s own journey.

Mary Strand - Annunciation (Hygh Tension Records)

1 September 2026

Minneapolis-based indie rocker Mary Strand has released her new single “Annunciation,” a deeply personal response to the 2025 mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church,

Kate Loraine - pieces of me (self-released)

1 September 2026

A New England based singer songwriter – Kate Loraine brings a whimsical perspective to navigating life, love, loss, and resilience.

Throes NYC - The Wires Out (self-released)

1 September 2026

The Wires Out is the new EP from THROES NYC, blending dark alt-pop, trip-hop, and electronic textures with a more melodic, pop-leaning edge.

Sonnen Blume - Ghost (Person to Person)

31 August 2026

Sonnen Blume is a UK based artist making intimate, reflective songs that sit in between folk, indie and quiet pop.

Siv Disa - Fade Into You (BLANDISHMENTS)

31 August 2026

Siv Disa is an American recording and visual artist currently based in Los Angeles.

Torrent Sound - Helpless (Fat Dog Productions)

28 August 2026

Danish singer-songwriter Frederik Damhus steps into a defining new chapter with Torrent Sound, the dreamy folk-pop project built around intimate songwriting.

Dinosaur Jr. - Near There (Jagjaguwar)

28 August 2026

Catchy melodies, powerhouse performances, and a clear comfort with how to make their music rule the day here.

Mastodon - Marrow Deep (Loma Vista)

28 August 2026

A loving tribute to the agony and ecstasy of life.

Toddy Tang - April Apocalypse (self-released)

28 August 2026

April Apocalypse is the new single from Hillg’s artistic project Toddy Tang.

Broken Horses - Down To You (self-released)

28 August 2026

London-based Broken Horses have established themselves as masters of atmospheric, emotionally charged soundscapes that exist somewhere between dream and reality.

Radiola - version of life (Mint Panther Records)

27 August 2026

Fresh from a sold out showcase at BBC Introducing at King Tut’s, Paisley indie rock outfit Radiola step forward with their debut album, ‘Version of Life’

Lurleen Ladd - Pink Houses (self-released)

27 August 2026

On her new album, Reclamation, Lurleen puts a fearless personal stamp on iconic ‘80s hits—the soundtrack of her teenage years, when dreams of a music career first caught fire

Sullivan Fortner - Leave That in There (Artwork)

27 August 2026

Now that he’s firmly ensconced in the world of mainstream jazz, it’s time to experiment, and Fortner sounds like he’s having a blast doing it on Leave That in There.

Shapes - Planet Android (Weevil Records)

27 August 2026

Drawing inspiration from Frank Zappa, Phish, Funkadelic, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Shapes fuse psychedelic rock, funk, jazz, and blues into a genre-blurring sound that thrives in a live setting

Rubbish Party - Please Stay (self-released)

27 August 2026

Forged in the transatlantic fires of 2022, Rubbish Party is a U.K.-based indie rock powerhouse that refuses to be boxed in. The brainchild of German-American lyricist, poet, and rogue philosopher Evan Zorn Von Berg.

KaiserKillers - Isolation (KryogenyK)

27 August 2026

KaiserKillers are time-travelling buskers, made mortal in the heat of Hamburg’s infamous Reeperbahn and to creating sumptuously layered guitar magic with an intricate lyrical overlay to define their signature PowerPopPunk! sound.

SulkyMan - The Things I Said (Sulkyman Records)

26 August 2026

Chris’s musical history stretches back to London’s early anarcho-punk scene, where he was a member of Part 1, a band whose dark and unconventional Funeral Parade EP later developed a cult following and was reissued decades after its original release.

Hide and Shine - 9 Seconds Before Revolution (Mindful Recordings)

26 August 2026

Hide and Shine is a Kingston, NY indie rock band whose music feels both strangely unfamiliar and instantly nostalgic, like a memory you can’t quite place.

Mona Mur – Don’t Turn On The News (play loud! productions)

25 August 2026

Mur supplies the machinery, the voice and the sonic architecture; Zownir supplies language born from decades of staring directly at what polite culture prefers to crop out. The deepest achievement of the record lies in that shared gaze. Neither artist offers consolation on demand, yet neither abandons beauty.

Mother Soki - Rivet Gun (Mom+Pop)

25 August 2026

This single is a triumph of mood and execution, demonstrating a maturity in songwriting and arrangement that extends far beyond the typical boundaries of contemporary independent music. It demands undivided attention, operating as a cohesive aesthetic statement that lingers in the mind long after the stylus returns to its rest.

Sugar World - White Noise (Sunday Records)

25 August 2026

As a single, ‘White Noise’ makes an impression through restraint rather than excess. Sugar World understands that atmosphere becomes more persuasive when it remains connected to a recognizable human center.

Michael Cloud Duguay - Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go (Watch That Ends The Night Records)

25 August 2026

‘Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go’ understands that impermanence is not the enemy of meaning. It may be the condition that gives meaning its urgency. Duguay has made a deeply attentive album in which Newfoundland is not merely represented but listened to, and in which the act of listening becomes a form of remembrance.

Electric LoFi Seresta - Dark Days And Clear Noon (Midsummer Madness)

25 August 2026

Almeida understands that existence contains both illumination and obscurity, noise and silence, solitude and communion. By allowing those conditions to coexist rather than forcing them into resolution, Electric LoFi Seresta have created an album that is intellectually ambitious, emotionally elusive, and musically alive.

The Moment of Nightfall - Memories Disappear In Echoes (Expanded Version) - (Clover Records)

25 August 2026

The Moment of Nightfall clearly understands the allure of music associated with other decades, but ‘Memories Disappear In Echoes’ is not a museum piece. Its hazy guitars, understated electronics, psychedelic repetitions and fragile vocals transform references to the past into something personal and contemporary. This is music for the uncertain territory between remembering and imagining.

The Circulators - Pointless Game EP (Total Punk)

25 August 2026

Its ambition is more immediate: to make three songs that sound alive, to preserve the exhilaration of playing them, and to leave the listener wanting the next thirty seconds before the final note has even disappeared. The Circulators accomplish that with conviction. Six minutes can be plenty when every second is charged with intent.

Lorna Dune - Sequential Dreaming (Mystery Circles)

25 August 2026

‘Sequential Dreaming’ is philosophical electronic music in the truest sense: it thinks through sound. Its patterns resemble biological systems, its rhythms recall ritual, its synthesizers evoke machines and stars, and its ambient passages suggest landscapes that may be physical, remembered or entirely imagined.

Husha Husha - Here Come The Waterworks (We Are Busy Bodies)

25 August 2026

Husha Husha recognizes that some of the most profound changes in perception happen when nothing apparently happens at all. In its patient repetitions, curious instrumentation and cosmic tenderness, the album creates a sanctuary without becoming precious.

Pickle Darling - Bots (Father/Daughter Records)

25 August 2026

Pickle Darling has built a world over several releases, and ‘Bots’ is perhaps the boldest expression yet of its willingness to question the rules governing that world. It is playful without being frivolous, experimental without becoming academic, and vulnerable without demanding solemnity.

Camille K - Something to Say (self-released)

25 August 2026

Camille K is a Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter, musician, and actor.

Stefon Harris + Blackout - Legacy Dances (Motema)

25 August 2026

Legacy Dances opens a new chapter in the Blackout saga with a note of tragedy, as the band suddenly lost founding saxophonist Casey Benjamin, a treasured member of the jazz, soul, and hip-hop communities, in 2024.

Jacob Barrett - Maybe (Chihuahua Records)

25 August 2026

Jacob Barrett is a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who writes, performs, and produces his own music.