New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
Black Marble: Life in Small Spaces [Sacred Bones]
Brandon Flowers: Thrasher [Island]
Brennan Wedl: Brennan Wedl [Anti-]
Cornelius: Refractions [Eat Your Own Ears]
The Cramps: Gravest Gravy [Vengeance]
GB: Herzsprung [AD 93]
Jorja Smith: What Are The Odds [FAMM]
Julia Holter: Materia [Domino]
Lambchop: Punching the Clown [Merge]
No Joy: Big Life, Big Leaf EP [Hand Drawn Dracula]
Sam Smith: Hazel Eyes [Capitol]
Squirrel Flower: Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going [Polyvinyl]
Weezer: Weezer (The Gold Album) [Reprise/Warner]
Westside Cowboy: It Goes On [Island]
Wild Pink: Still Coming Down [Fire Talk]
August 28
Alex Warren: Wildchild [Atlantic]
Boy Harsher: Get Mean [Atlantic]
Dinosaur Jr.: There Near [Jagjagwuar]
Interpol: This Mirror Weighs a Ton [Partisan]
Jim James: Wowed Out [ATO]
Matodon: Marrow Deep [Loma Vista]
Mike D: Thank You [Fontana]
Prince: Timeless [NPG]
Pulp: Live! [Rough Trade]
Rod Wave: Don’t Look Down [Alamo]
Russian Circles: Nine [Sargent House]
Sarah Davachi: The Will of Tongues [Late]
Saul Williams: Leap Life [Big Dada]
Ty Segall: Chrome [Drag City]
September 4
Arab Strap: Half-Told Tales [Rock Action]
Chat Pile: Who Loves the Sun [The Flesner]
Ellie Goulding: I Know Too Much [Warner]
September 11
Angela Autumn: Believer [Gar Hole]
Bloc Party: Anatomy of a Brief Romance [Contagious Ltd.]
Bonobo: Distance in Static [Ninja Tune]
Haruomi Hosono: Yours Sincerely [Ghostly International]
Ibibio Sound: Chopping Mountain [Merge]
This Is Lorelei: The Singer in My Band [Matador]
The Tubs: Hard Life [Merge]
September 18
Anthrax: Cursum Perficio [Megaforce]
Beabadoobee: Pylon [Dirty Hit]
Big Benny Bailey (Shamir Bailey and Ben Pierce): Business Spice [Thirty Tigers]
Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night [Interscope]
Emma Ruth Rundle: These Killing Times [Emma Ruth Rundle]
Empress Of: Dream House [Giant Music]
Ezra Collective: Here Because Of Hope [Partisan]
Kristin Hersh: Sugar on Blackstone [Fire]
Son Lux: Out Into [City Slang/This Is Meru]
Slow Pulp: Melodie [ANTI-]
Team Dresch: Furthermore [Jealous Butcher]
Tove Lo: Estrus [Pretty Swede]
September 25
Blondshell: Violins [Partisan]
Bullion: Nearly [Ghostly]
Julia Jacklin: The Gem [4AD]
Soft Cell: Danceteria [Republic of Music]
The Yummy Fur: Everybody Talks About the Weather [Upset the Rhythm]
October 2
Emily A. Sprague: Cyano [Rvng Intl.]
Johnny Marr: The Age of Everything [BMG]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Ruin: It’s Not Just Music [Someone Special]
Lily Seabird: Lightspheres on Their Way [Lame-O]
Wishy: Nature’s Pill [Winspear]
October 9
Marina Herlop: Dja Dja [Self-released]
October 16
@: Autosmile [4AD]
Eels: Cookie Happened [Play It Again Sam]
Two Shell: Infinite Now [Young]
October 23
Fenne Lily: Win Win [Nettwerk]
November 13
Various Artists: 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan [Rubyworks]
